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driverless vehicles should not be allowed on the roads.

I think something like that will happen, but it will work the other way. That is, some roads will only allow driverless cars. Because they can communicate with each other and the road itself, there would be no need for traffic lights as cars weave around each other in a complicated, but smoothly coreographed dance - in a way that human drivers could not possibly perform.

Eventually, driverless will be the safest and fastest option. It’s inevitable. The real question is regarding when will it get to that point.

I remember when someone said back in the mid-90’s that all successful salesmen would have a cell phone. I didn’t believe it. My position sounds ludicrous, now. It didn’t back then.

Like I used to say to my friends in high school (1970). when they said, “People will never accept that.” My response: “what is true is that THIS GENERATION will never accept that.”

And the world is changing so fast, along with people’s willingness to accept change, that even that is no longer true.

I liken the driverless car to the war between the mobile option (laptop/tablet not smartphone) and desktop. We are always going to need the desktop but more and more people are moving towards the mobile option. There have always been, since the invention of the laptop then the tablet, articles proclaiming this will be the year the desktop dies. It’s true desktop usage is way down from its peak and that number continues to dwindle but never quite reaching the “death of the desktop”.

Like this endless war, which is not really a war since most have both mobile and desktop, the driverless car versus the driver in car will also suffer this type of fate.

Let’s face it some people still like to put their hands on the steering wheel and press that pedal to feel the exhilaration of being in control.