Does the average person trust a machine to do the driving? How hacker proof are these driverless cars? Ordinary cars with wireless connections have already been hacked into.
I guess it depends when the technology will be reliable enough.
Were both exchanging posts on devices that are wide open to hacking and yet we still bought them.
Someone hacking my cell phone isn’t nearly as scary as someone hacking my car.
I wasn’t meaning to compare the two, I was saying that people will buy driverless cars in 20?? even if they are not at all safe from hacking. In the same we buy phones and PCs that are not safe from hacking now because we can’t live without in 2018, or they just make life easier.
Many people today seem quite happy to install 1984-style omnipresent surveillance units in their homes and pay for it too, just so they can order a pint of milk without getting off the sofa.
“What? I can buy a car that will drive me home from the pub when I’m sh*tfaced and I won’t get arrested? No more orange juice. Sign me up. It’s only 99% safe you say? Still sign me up.”
Human nature.