emptywheel

My expectation has always been that human driving will be legal for a long time, just expensive because insurance premiums will be huge.https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/930072637191213057 …

Which will lead to people driving illegally because the people who won't be able to afford a self-driving car won't afford the insurance.

I don't think this is right in the long run, tho. My instinct tells me self-driving cars will be way cheaper both to make & operate.

Also, most people won't own these cars. They'll summon one on their phone on-demand.

Which poor people also won't be able to afford.

I think this is backwards for 2 reasons. First, many of the poor are unbanked by can get mobiles w/cash. So w/ a mobile & cash, they'll be able to get a car on-demand.

Second, when it comes to complex hardware/software combos (i.e. cars, computers) it's generally cheaper to for most users to rent in small, granular time-slices on demand than own.