Opinion of mandatory driverless cars.

[dead0man]

I would much rather be around automobiles operated by machines than automobiles operated by people. How many people each year do you think are killed by automobiles as a result of human error?

~95% of them.  Mechanical failure and extremely bad luck make up the rest.  Driverless cars will save many thousands of lives a year just driving drunks home.

I suspect when the majority of cars have some of the better modern safety features on them (like the auto emergency braking, stay in your lane assist, adaptive cruise control, etc), we'll see traffic fatalities drop even faster than they have been (and they've been plummeting for forty years).

Now if we can automatically get people out of the passing lane who aren't passing!

[Nutmeg]

Freedom idea. Most people are not good at driving, and even those who are lack the reaction time of a computer.

[Dr. MB]

We have a big decision as a society that we are already making. "Progress" at all costs even if it totally alters our lives to an unrecognizable state and makes us completely dependent on technology or ignore that self-destructive line of thinking and keep the slippery slope from sliding down. Unfortunately we're probably gonna pick the first option but it doesn't have to be that way.