Elon Musk and the dude in charge of self driving research at google have both said they look forward to a future where self driving cars are not only the norm, but mandatory. Go to any reddit thread about self driving cars and you'll see many users calling for the same, comparing human driven cars to guns - in that they should be kept on the track just as firearms are kept on the range.
Polling indicates that millennials overwhelmingly view driving as a chore that they would prefer to be automated.
Sports and muscle cars will be the first target as they appear more dangerous and can be loud and inefficient. They will be demonized as toys for the rich. I expect age based displacement limits (already in place in Australia) and possibly outright bans on high performance street cars.
I have no problem with self driving vehicles. People that don't want to drive but are forced to are more likely to distract themselves with phones and so forth. However, once they become common, Musk and the other firms pioneering the tech will push to make them mandatory with few exceptions (for rural areas/off-road/financial hardship).
Ugh, liberals are so annoying. They always find a way to ruin everything.
Brandon Foster
I want to be the one in a classic muscle car blazing down the highway letting the self driving cars swerv out of my way with their automatic accident avoidance
Carson Gomez
This is why I am not jumping on the Tesla bandwagon. Not because I don't think EVs are cool as fuck but it's because Elon and Co. want to mandate self driving cars. It will either become flat out illegal to drive yourself or they'll make insurance too expensive because they'll argue that humans cause crashes, not self driving computers. It will start with the Model 3 and everyone will think it's the greatest thing evar. RIP Veeky Forums
Wyatt Mitchell
>Donald Trump becomes President >Google's lobbying cant work anymore
Austin Nelson
Unfortunately, if the laws against doing that are anything like the laws against "street racing" you'll probably have your car crushed once the cops catch you.
That will be the other insidious element of it - as "manual" cars become more rare, car enthusiasts will turn against people that want to drive them on the street, because of the risks, and begin advocating for track use only. Look at the way much of gun community balked at the open carry movement for an example of the kind of infighting we can expect.
When the anti-car politicians begin proposing outright bans on internal combustion engines, "moderates" within the car community will counter-offer with a ban on streetable ICEs and "manual" cars, in exchange for the continued legality of ICE track cars.
Nathan Wood
Cant drive V8 or turbo or anything with any engine mod until in 20 in nonfreestralia.
I can drive a 210kw v6 but an old 170kw V8 is dangerous and would make me into an evil hoon says mr gubbment
Also until im 18 i cant drive from 12am to 5am and i cant have more than 1 passenger
Adrian King
How the fuck did Australia, a country with so much empty space in which to hoon without endangering others, end up with these laws?
I know they exist, as indicated in the OP, but I don't know exactly why.
Luke Rodriguez
Nah that's bullshit, the regulatory power of most transportation boards only extends to public roads, and emissions from racing are completely insignificant on a national scale. ICE track cars will exist as long as they're feasible.
Carson Clark
I cant see it happening here in NZ anytime soon but I still fear that it happening somewhere like the USA could set a precedent for the rest of the world.
