Why most drivers don’t want autonomous cars

[whatthehey]

75. Really?

I don't feed in 0s and 1s and decide which processor any given bit of code runs on. I just tell the computer to navigate to website X or make Excel give me the result of a formula. In other words I tell my computer what result I want and trust that it is far more capable of managing the means to that end than I am.

It's not like autonomous cars will decide when you should go to the store or whether you should take a trip to Chicago or Des Moines instead this weekend. You decide where you want to go, tell the car and it gets you there, just like a computer does for users.

30,000 people get killed every year in the US with human drivers. If it's 20,000 with autonomous cars that's a big gain.

Farriers who had common sense became mechanics. Taxi drivers have the highest homicide rate of any profession; it's hard, and pointless, to kill an autonomous vehicle software installation.