What makes you say that, Bruce? How do you know?
I find it quite scary.
It has been suggested that driverless cars would be obtained by requesting one by phone, much like a taxi now. If that is the case, road tax, fuel, MOT’s and licence would be the responsibility of the provider, much like a taxi…
UBER don’t seem to think so.
Some of the technology cannot recognise black cabs and routmaster buses
The average driver reaction time varies from 1 to 3 seconds, I think I read somewhere that for accident reconstruction they use 1.5 to 2 seconds (I am sure you can google that). On the other hand a computer recognising an obstacle ahead can apply the brake in nano seconds - the only delay would be the mechanical linkages.
Just to give you an idea of what that means - at the urban speed limit of 60kph a car travels nearly 17m in 1 second so it would travel 25 metres before the brake was applied by the driver assuming a pretty fast reaction time.
Of course this assumes a pretty sophisticated collision detection system that won’t jam the brake on for a bird flying in a car’s path.
Again something I read, kangaroos are causing driverless car systems a lot of problems because they spend so much time in the air, I think it is do with using the ground as a reference. Found it:
maybe you can rent a car short term via an app, so you can book the use of a car that will come to you and you can use as required, still a very long way off but it’s the future…
Uber want it more than anyone, they can’t be shot of all those pesky drivers fast enough.
Realist, you do surprise, I always though you were “anti” anything that involved centralization.
Yes Spitty, I was taken aback when I read Realists post…:shock:
Anything ‘Smart’ has got to be a bad thing…
What about motorbikes? Will they also follow on as ‘driverless’ or perhaps riderless? 
:-D:-D:-D
That’s a great idea Longdogs, it would certainly cut down on the fatal motorbike accidents…
And you could have driverless prams, put your sprog in and the pram would walk itself…
And what about ‘Smart’ dog leads…?
The possibilities are endless…
In fact…there would be no need for humans at all…:shock:
Some folks are “Virtually” there already OGF.
We would all have to go to the pub. 
I’m looking at AI in a whole new light Spitty and Longdogs…
Great points about the advantages of driverless cars.
My parents practically have one now. It slams on the brakes when necessary, parallel parks, warns when you are going out of your lane, holds a distance behind the car in front of you, and warns of cars that are in your blind spot if you start to signal that you are changing lanes. My problem so far has been trusting the thing to do what it’s programmed to do.
I trust a driverless car far more than many of people I see currently on the road, or coming out of a pub - like Longdogs 
Hic! :shock:
On a slightly different tack…
In a paper mill I used to have AGVs, automatically guided vehicles. These were large trucks that carried the finished 16 tonne reels of paper for the paper machine to the converting machine. Driverless - they were programmed to follow a track laid in the mill floor. There were sensors to the proximity of a pedestrian or an object in their path to avoid collisions.
Worked just fine. And that was decades ago.
There are no drivers in these trucks each carrying 60 tonnes of ore hour after hour, day after day.
OK you stand at the bus stop and hop on…no driver no nothing its small at the moment but things maybe to come.