Kind of like riding the bus.
—with cars by 2025 driving themselves in tight formations—
I read a science fiction novel called “Red Lightning” or Red Thunder. Whichever one was the first of the two. In it, our hero’s live in a future Florida where only cars that have passed certain inspection can drive on the freeways, and the tight formation is exactly what happens. The “road system” computer controls trains of ten or more cars that drive at high speed a foot off each other’s bumper, drastically improving fuel economy and safety. I really do see this sort of thing as the future - like the police cars in Demolition Man with “self drive” mode.
Not much of a leap since there are already cars that will parallel park themselves.
No thank you. When I cannot be in control of an American V8 with a few hundred HP, a big piece of the fun of life is gone.
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
With industry disappearing at the current rate, there will be no such vehicle ever built.
“Your honor, we the jury, hold for the plaintiff and award him $8.7 billion dollars from the company that developed this automatic driving system.”
It will only work if they can keep the lawyers from owning the companies through civil trials.
Saw a video many years ago with about 10 vehicles doing around 80mph a foot off each others bumper with no driver input. Probably a DARPA test. We should have already had this up and running.
2025? Why so long?