(07-22-2017, 07:50 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-22-2017, 05:46 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: This is Waaaaaaaaay more than a few years away. Self driving trucks will be decades behind self driving cars, which is still at least a decade away itself.

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Tough question to answer, but if someone knows their job will be replaced by automation and has a decade of notice, I don't see it as the government responsibility to train people in new job skills.

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I do believe that a self driving taxi cab should be liable to pay the same amount of tax as a taxi driver would.

You should go visit California some time, Google's company Waymo been using autonomous cars there for more than 5 years now. Uber is currently testing an autonomous unit as well. Moore's Law is in full effect and we are standing on the edge of exponential growth in technology.

I am not saying it isn't happening or going to happen, I am just saying we are a long time away from a country where the roads are full of cars that require ZERO human intervention. 

Near the end of last year, the US mandated that all new vehicles have V2V technology, which would take 2-4 years just to get that technology into new cars, and God knows how much longer to test.

Can you imagine the laws and rules that will need to be put into place before an 80,000 pound MACK truck is barreling down 95 South with no driver behind the wheel? Assuming you are around my age, we won't see it in our generation, but our kids will.

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