• LughOPA
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    17 days ago

    Will we see a day when manually driving a car is as illegal and socially unacceptable as driving drunk or without a seatbelt? I’d guess so. Tech like this will become standardized along the way to full Level 5 self-driving.

    There’s a whole demographic of people aged 80+ who face restrictions on their driving as they age further. I would expect Volkswagen and others to be marketing car software along these lines tailored to their needs and problems.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      It should become as frowned upon as no seatbelts, at least. I imagine there will be a grey area as long as things stay at 3/4 and you have to do things manually sometimes, though, so no prison time like with drunk driving.