Would you give up your car for a self-driving vehicle or passenger drone?

Would you give up your car for a self-driving vehicle or passenger drone?

  • Yes

    Votes: 79 63.7%

  • No

    Votes: 45 36.3%
  • Total voters
    124
When I think of those long trips down to Cape town, or all the way up to Gauteng (I'm in the Midlands of KZN) then yes, being able to just sleep or read a book in the backseat sounds like a much better way to spend my time!
 
I hate traffic. I hate driving. But I love good design. So whatever is going to get me to work, as long as it's in style, I'm all for it.
 
One day when the technology and infrastructure is sound, regulations have been put in (and enforced) and the insurance / health industry sorted, yes.

I'd still keep a manual (not automatic!) "off the grid" vehicle for when Skynet / hackers infiltrate the network. And also, for nostalgia.
 
I'm so used to public transport, driving is acting on my nerves, especially traffic jams.

I would take self-driving car, but AI is too far imperfect, so no.

On other hand, drone will be more than fine.
 
Self driving cars would be great. Except for when some monumental technical screw up happens and no one would be able to get anywhere. Secondly where is the joy in just sitting and doing nothing!
 
Hell no. Give up screaming and shouting and point fingers at other drivers for driving faster or slower than me? Never.
 
Sci-fi version: I want a car with both self-drive and auto modes. For safety the roads are classed as either all-auto-drive or all-self-drive. During congestion times ALL the vehicles are forced into auto mode so they can move faster, and when the auto mode is no longer required the vehicle parks in a transition bay so the driver can drive off into the self-drive lanes.

Reality version: I'm a software engineer, I'm not going to partake in the software debugging or acceptance testing phases. I want dedicated lanes for the auto-driving cars unless the auto-driving software can evade local taxis safely & drive on unmarked roads.
 
Joburg - No

Cape Town - Would sell my house for one
 
Its still a car. You're still going to be stuck in traffic. No thanks. Its the biggest waste of time. I can't understand that the government doesn't get more busses and more routes going. Wonder of the DA will be equally useless regarding the waste of time in traffic by thousands of motorists. A bus costs R2m. 100 busses that can take 50 passangers and you have 5000 cars of the road. Make it a thousand you have 50k cars off. They'll get to places quicker, can do round trips , can reach more destinations. Now we have a Gautrain catering for a few. And people wwant CARS. Cars should be taken away completely.
 
You should think of an autonomous car not in todays terms, traffic, etc but in the future

A car we buy spends 94% of its time parked, but still depreciating
We spend hours looking for parking, and paying for it
Great swathes of real estate are devoted to parking

An autonomous car is only part of the story

We will not have to buy a car, you will call up one on your phone, get in and get delivered to your destination. The car will push off to fetch the next customer. The car will be owned by Uber, or something similar
In that way, we will need less than 1/3 of the cars on the roads today
No more traffic jams
No more pollution from that 19th century anachronism, the internal combustion engine, necessitating a car which has 18000 parts. An electric car has under 50

It is estimated by Volvo that children born today will never get driving licences

We will view driving your own car as old fashioned and ludicrous as bleeding was to alleviate illness.

This will occur in the next 10 to 12 years

In 1895 a picture of 5th Avenue in New York shows 2000 horses and carriages and one car. A picture taken from the same spot in 1914 shows 2000 cars and one horse. That is in 19 years, over 100 years ago. We all know how the advance of technology is increasing, so my estimate of 10 to 12 years might be conservative

I'd love not to have to buy a car, to service it, licence it and clean it. That's a big chunk of money saved
 
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