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I think that what we're seeing is all the change-averse stick-in-the-muds going "oh, no, no, no, we don't want things to be different to the way they are now, that might be dangerous, unlike the perfectly safe existence we have right now that I grew up with", and soon enough
Hardly.. There is a very big push to electric self-driving cars. A number of countries have even set national goals. Companies too are gearing up. Look at all the "car sharing" companies sprouting up.. many being driven by the makers of the motorcars themselves-- such as BMW with Drive Now--- and many throwing their makers into the business of making motorcars--- Google, Apple, Uber..
they're all going to be dead from old age or sitting on their arses all the time or car crashes and the robocars will just march forth into being around them.
Re-insurrance companies have already gotten into the game so it is really a short jump to making human driven motorcars prohibitively expensive. In the shorter term I think we'll see more and more accident aversion technology and this too will get folded into the "cost to drive".
EdwardZ-
The comments were about the scare-mongering article not about the manufacturers building the tech: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/
I would pay now for a robocar.
hippy
I think that what we're seeing is all the change-averse stick-in-the-muds going "oh, no, no, no, we don't want things to be different to the way they are now, that might be dangerous, unlike the perfectly safe existence we have right now that I grew up with", and soon enough they're all going to be dead from old age or sitting on their arses all the time or car crashes and the robocars will just march forth into being around them.