Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

They already are in factories and warehouses. I've been to a winery back home and watched the fully automatic loaders stack palettes of wine higher than humans can. They know exactly what the wine is and where it needs to go and will stop and route around it if anything gets in their way. They also know when they're almost flat and will automatically recharge themselves. All they need to do is take this outdoors..

You should see the automation in car factories. Even low tech corvettes are built on a series of automated and computer controlled moving platforms. These platforms roll freely throughout the factory and deliver parts or partially constructed 'vettes to different stations and can be retasked almost instantly.

The car industry definitely understands the tech needed to bring this to the road. I'm sure most manufacturers are working on ways to be involved.

And on the jobs front - all I saw in this documentary on car manufacture was much better working conditions for the humans and a far less dangerous workplace. Can't be a bad thing?