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I'm really looking forward to seeing how the mass interactions of driverless and driven cars is going to work:
When a driverless car spots a driven one, it has to be cautious and defer because the human is more than likely an idiot, it's going to have to give way more often, and slow down. Can a human in a sea of robots can be an arsehole with impunity because the robots will save themselves and get out of the way?
When a driverless car spots another driverless car they can communicate and decide on the most mutually beneficial set of maneuvers to both be as quick as possible, if necessary one deferring to the other but both being quicker overall than if there was a human involved. This might well work between two google cars but what happens if a google car spots a sony car? They can communicate, decide what's going on and what to do but the sony car could, for example, betray the google car and jump in front. Now sony cars are faster than google cars.
People still call each other cunts, now they just wind down the rear windows instead. I'm looking forward to seeing rival robot passengers fighting in the street while the cars park up out of the way and wait patiently for the angry flesh to calm down.
Meanwhile bicycles get "Collision Undermining Nano-Technology" and my 2018 phil hub with wifi automatically locks when the last human on the road pulls backwards out of nowhere and I bang out the perfect whip-to-sideways-stop-and-smirk while instagramming it live.