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Izeinwinter comments on Open thread, 24-30 March 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 29 March 2014 01:13:54AM *  1 point [-]

Keep in mind that non-self-driving cars will always be cheaper and will always have a market no matter how good autonomous ones get since autonomous vehicles have more parts and maintenance needs. You will never have an area with only autonomous vehicles, absent massive government intervention.

Comment author: Izeinwinter 29 March 2014 12:18:01PM 1 point [-]

I place the likelyhood of massive government intervention or the equivalent (insurance becoming flat out unavailable for manual drivers) at somewhere north of 90 %. Driver error has a really high cost in quality adjusted life years, every year. If eliminating that cost becomes an option, it will get used.