Your car will soon be driving you.
If you haven’t yet heard of autonomous driving, you are about to read all about it, and we are sure you’ll learn a thing or two, as we did . . .
This concept of autonomous driving means that a car is able to fully operate on its own. Your car will be able to drive itself while you literally sit back and relax.
We are already seeing autonomous cars in production. The Audi A8 autonomous car should be on the market by the end of 2016. An autonomous Audi A7 recently drove itself from Paolo Alto to Las Vegas by itself.
These autonomous cars will first go to sale outside of the U.S., but by 2017-2018 we should start seeing the Audi A8 here.
Both Google and Tesla predict that fully-autonomous cars will be available to the public by 2020. Elon Musk, Tesla Motor’s CEO describes this as “true autonomous driving where you could literally get in the car, go to sleep and wake up at your destination.”
By 2025 these cars will be commonplace, and will monopolize the market by 2030.
What does this mean for our economy?
- Unprecedented job loss
- Prevention of tens of thousands of deaths per year in car related accidents
- Millions of hours will be saved- productivity will increase
- New industries will be created that we couldn’t possibly even imagine yet
- The trend of global warming could be reversed
- We won’t require as my cars
Research predicts that the number of vehicles on the road will be reduced by 99%, which means that we will see a drop from 245 million to just 2.4 million vehicles.
Uber, an application that connects riders to drivers within minutes, could eventually replace every taxi cab in New York City- passengers would wait an average of 36 seconds for a ride that costs about $0.50 per mile. When there is no one else in the car, the cost of taking an Uber everyone is cheaper.
To imagine that your car will one day be able to drive you to work, then drive itself home, and drive your kids to school is mind-blowing.
I think this is one of those things we will need to see to believe, but the facts are already out- these autonomous cars are in production.
To say that we’re excited at LifeDaily for our cars to one day drive themselves would be an understatement. Are you?
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