i've heard driverless cars are coming soon.

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robotic cars that drive us places. will such cars still have horns that you can honk? or will the horn go obsolete?

Do robots get the horn?

This would be good if I could afford a car - need of license negotiable?

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Insurance should buy it due to inability to drive lol

I bet these will be very expensive to buy and only rich people would be able to get them.

it will be the main transportation of middle-class people who have smart phone service, via technologically updated present-day services such as Uber which will abandon the hiring of human drivers, it will be the first occupational field to be totally given over to robots, with fast food to follow on its heels. the working class will continue to drive the remaining old beaters or take what is left of public transit or bike or walk.

I hate all this. In years to come everything's going to be all circuits and wires, and it's going to replace people and everybody will be out of work. It's not good, especially if you're in the UK where there are too many people and not enough jobs and the government still expect you to find work. If everything's going to be robots soon, jobs will be so scarce. It's scary. Why do humans want to outnumber humans to robots?

humanity is fatally flawed.

Initially yes, that's how every new gadget is. Super expensive only for those who can afford it, then material gets cheaper enough for commercial sell for every one else.

I've heard the apocalypse is coming soon.
The four horsemen will instead be the four driverless car men.

there will be less car accidents with robotic cars. no more drunk drivers.

that reminds me of a curse the late frank Sinatra laid on author kitty Kelly- "i hope 4 blind drunk men driving cars come down the street where you're walking!"

They're already here, in some capacity, as are driverless trucks. Recently, Budweiser did a demo trip in Colorado with a Volvo 780 (may have been a 670, but one of the bonneted American Volvo's) hauling a load of beer up I-25 with the driver sitting in the sleeper for most of the trip. Not truly driverless, but they still needed a babysitter in case the Volvo lost its mind somewhere, which it did not.

Just so long as these driver-less cars don't do a complete I-Robot; one might program it to go to the beach but instead it drives it's inferior humans to the dentist. Damnit, AI.