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Originally Posted by shoemakj View Post
I'm fully in favor of autonomous vehicles. In fact, I'm counting on them being common place 30 or so years from now, when I'm probably not going to be able to drive safely anymore. One of the hardest things my father had to do was give up his car keys. That loss of freedom almost certainly accelerated his decline in the last years of his life. With autonomous vehicles, I should never have to make that decision.

Most of cars I see lately seem to be driving themselves already. Unfortunately, the are not autonomous.
That for sure will the first strong market for an auto-automobile. When I am no long able to drive myself it will be great to get in my car and say take me to to doctors office or the store.

I can see it being VERY popular with the average new driver. The get in and can keep texting and update Facebook and drive through big city traffic with no problems.

The big issue will be hackers. Right now we can't keep the hackers out of sensitive computers. What will happen when they hack a few million cars in LA?
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