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Originally Posted by shoemakj

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.

This, exactly.

Especially in an urban environment. One of the largest contributors to freeway closure/congestion is people driving 55 and then zero repeatedly when the avg speed is 20, and traffic would flow smoothly at 20.