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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.
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..
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".