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Old Posted Oct 29, 2020, 11:48 PM
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Bingo. Existing self-drive even if its crude form is ALREADY 5X safer than a human driver... Insurance operators will want people to drive automated cars for this reason... https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtem.../#d3a7c6e5b97c

Want a simple test? Use cruise control on any road that has a smidge of traffic and see how awful humans are at even just keeping speed at a constant...
Who will they be insuring? If I'm not driving and only bought the vehicle, maybe Tesla should be the insured.
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If anyone tried to put a governor on my car I would more than happily break the law to have it taken out.
Well a lot of cars have them, just at a high enough speed that most wouldn't hit them. I think mostly to protect driveline components taht are only rated to certain speeds.

My truck's cuts off power at 179km/h. I managed to get it to hit 181 on a downhill though.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 4:16 PM
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Who will they be insuring? If I'm not driving and only bought the vehicle, maybe Tesla should be the insured.
Simple, they'll just change insurable items from 'cars you drive' to 'cars you sit in the driver's seat of but are AV'. You'll essentially be paying insurance on your driving despite never actually driving.

Perhaps under this scenario boys will still pay higher insurance rates than girls regardless of AV or not.
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Perhaps under this scenario boys will still pay higher insurance rates than girls regardless of AV or not.
Indeed. I imagine the presumption would be that teenage boys would still be more likely than girls to actually grab the wheel, try to drive manually, and do something stupid.

I imagine in the future if you have an accident while under manual control, your insurance rates would go through the roof. If the accident occurs during autonomous control, the rates would likely stay the same. This in itself would likely temper the behaviour of the owner, and make it more likely that they would tend to let the car do the driving...…...
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 4:35 PM
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Who will they be insuring? If I'm not driving and only bought the vehicle, maybe Tesla should be the insured.
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Simple, they'll just change insurable items from 'cars you drive' to 'cars you sit in the driver's seat of but are AV'. You'll essentially be paying insurance on your driving despite never actually driving.

Perhaps under this scenario boys will still pay higher insurance rates than girls regardless of AV or not.
If I remember right, there has already been word from the manufacturers that they are planning for the liability being on them for insurance. Which would make sense as an accident caused by the self driving system would be their fault. Even today, if you drove a vehicle out of a Ford dealership and the wheels immediately fell off causing an accident, you'd be able to pin the blame on Ford. It's why they are so willing to recall vehicles to fix design flaws - they don't want a class action lawsuit.

But they won't release a true self driving car car into the wild until they are sure it won't cause accidents. Tesla are being pretty reckless IMO but they can probably get away with saying the monkey still has the controls, so any crash is still their fault.

You still might want insurance anyway though as there are other ways your vehicle can get damaged (hail, theft etc). It should be cheaper though.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 4:40 PM
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Indeed. I imagine the presumption would be that teenage boys would still be more likely than girls to actually grab the wheel, try to drive manually, and do something stupid.

I imagine in the future if you have an accident while under manual control, your insurance rates would go through the roof. If the accident occurs during autonomous control, the rates would likely stay the same. This in itself would likely temper the behaviour of the owner, and make it more likely that they would tend to let the car do the driving...…...
Right. It could well be that something as boring as insurance is what truly seals autonomous vehicles' dominance. When it comes to it, would people be willing to spend a few thousand for the privilege of driving less safely? The insurance differential would probably widen further between self driven and non, as human drivers would be causing 100% of accidents on the road, and 100% responsible for the cost of repairing all the very pricy sensors on the computer driven car they damaged.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 5:14 PM
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I think if anything insurance with a fully autonomous vehicle will cost more than the current system we have.

Instead to determining whether the driver is at fault - the insurance companies would need to determine what system in the respective vehicle is at fault. In order to do that, they would need to engage the manufacturer's and IMO requiring far greater data analysis, time and resources, even to determine the blame of relatively simple collisions.

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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 5:24 PM
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Right. It could well be that something as boring as insurance is what truly seals autonomous vehicles' dominance. When it comes to it, would people be willing to spend a few thousand for the privilege of driving less safely? The insurance differential would probably widen further between self driven and non, as human drivers would be causing 100% of accidents on the road, and 100% responsible for the cost of repairing all the very pricy sensors on the computer driven car they damaged.
Well at least it wouldn't be a faceless "big brother" government mandarin telling me that I can't drive my car. If it is an insurance issue, then I will be the one making the decision. As I have said, I don't have an issue with autonomous vehicles per se, and can see using this option at times where I am more interested in watching the scenery, or am drowsy or if the driving is mundane. I always want the option however of controlling the vehicle myself.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 5:59 PM
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Right. It could well be that something as boring as insurance is what truly seals autonomous vehicles' dominance. When it comes to it, would people be willing to spend a few thousand for the privilege of driving less safely? The insurance differential would probably widen further between self driven and non, as human drivers would be causing 100% of accidents on the road, and 100% responsible for the cost of repairing all the very pricy sensors on the computer driven car they damaged.

That's another good point that I hadn't considered yet - there's just a ton of little things making the rise of AVs prove to be more difficult than (some) expected. I'm sure insurance will find a way though!

One interesting aspect is that if we went full, or even mostly AV, I think car ownership would go down considerably. One of the big pluses to system optimization that it offers is to have constantly operating vehicles that could function in a rideshare type of scenario. Not to say people wouldn't still own their own vehicles as there's an obvious advantage, but it may make a 2 car household reconsider and go to 1. Similarly I don't think it would invalidate public transit as capacity issues come into play in any urban setting.

On a personal level I hate being a passenger on long car trips - I find it incredibly boring if I'm not driving.
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You can insure a set of tits if you want, so I don’t think that will be a problem.

I think transit will be transformed by driverless cars. Suburban routes, especially in the off peak hours, handle very few passengers. It would make more sense to have small vehicles doing those routes. I predict many bus routes will be eliminated in the next 5 to 10 years.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 7:48 PM
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^^^ While I think your time frame of 5 to 10 years is a tad optimistic, I agree they will be one of the first things to be automated assuming they can take on the unions.

One has to remember that driver-less buses/streetcars bring with them other concerns that will need to be addressed. First, fare collection. How do you stop people from simply not paying. Fare gates at the doors is a no-go because it would inhibit people with mobility issues. Second, safety. A lot of people will be hesitant to use the buses when there is no driver and especially late night.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 8:31 PM
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I have actually seen the door guard on a TTC subway save someone's life (or at least from serious injury), so there will always be a safety argument. Unless you start putting security guards on transit vehicles, which feels a little dystopian. Or at least South African, from my experience.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 9:29 PM
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^^^ While I think your time frame of 5 to 10 years is a tad optimistic, I agree they will be one of the first things to be automated assuming they can take on the unions.

One has to remember that driver-less buses/streetcars bring with them other concerns that will need to be addressed. First, fare collection. How do you stop people from simply not paying. Fare gates at the doors is a no-go because it would inhibit people with mobility issues. Second, safety. A lot of people will be hesitant to use the buses when there is no driver and especially late night.
You could eliminate the "problem" of people not paying... by just making buses free.

If we had electric buses of various sizes that had no driver, the marginal cost of increasing capacity would be very low so you could run them at very high frequencies, partially on demand. This would make transit much more useful and attractive, getting more people on public transit and reducing the costs associated with car use, so providing free buses could easily be revenue positive.

We have unattended transit already (Skytrain etc). Non issue. Use the money saved by eliminating the driver to increase the number of police etc, who are more qualified to deal with security.

The usual disclaimer of course; this ain't happening any time soon.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2020, 9:43 PM
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If we had electric buses of various sizes that had no driver, the marginal cost of increasing capacity would be very low so you could run them at very high frequencies, partially on demand. This would make transit much more useful and attractive, getting more people on public transit and reducing the costs associated with car use, so providing free buses could easily be revenue positive.
Right now the cost of a driver puts a lower bound on the size of transit vehicles and encourages the adoption of bigger vehicles at scale. Without this effect the economics change a lot. The distinction between transit and ride sharing is going to blur if there are autonomous vehicles. I could see electrics being cheaper than current vehicles in the future too, and in principle the electricity cost can be driven down to near 0.

Traffic throughput on roads could change a lot too. The most important bottleneck today relates to people stopping and starting one after the other and leaving enough time to react and stop. In principle this could be improved dramatically with coordination; a pack of vehicles accelerating and decelerating together. The reaction time problem means that maximum throughput does not scale up at high speeds (i.e. you need N seconds of stopping time so you need more stopping distance at 100 km/h than 50 km/h and so throughput does not necessarily go up much with speed).

I think transportation is going to change a lot during the next 50 years. Contrary to the predictions of others I think flying will also become more important, first for deliveries and then people, and this will change what geography means (e.g. dropping the cost of being on the wrong side of a body of water).
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Manuals are still more fun to drive, more reliable and cheaper to fix. It's kind of a moot point though, since EVs will make all transmissions obsolete fairly soon.
Subjective opinion. I've never driven a manual, but I have two friends who switched away from manuals because they found driving in urban traffic a huge PITA with a manual.
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A manual is more fun. I wish I'd gotten a manual instead of automatic although I can see why a manual might suck driving on Bloor Street West - since the bike lanes were installed it's been awful stop-and-go from Jane to Jones. Cycling truly is the better way here. It had been 20+ years since I'd driven and my do I regret it: driving is fun! (However driving in the suburbs and most of Toronto isn't much fun. I prefer the twisty roads of Muskoka, Kawartha Lakes and country B roads.)
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You could eliminate the "problem" of people not paying... by just making buses free.

If we had electric buses of various sizes that had no driver, the marginal cost of increasing capacity would be very low so you could run them at very high frequencies, partially on demand. This would make transit much more useful and attractive, getting more people on public transit and reducing the costs associated with car use, so providing free buses could easily be revenue positive.

We have unattended transit already (Skytrain etc). Non issue. Use the money saved by eliminating the driver to increase the number of police etc, who are more qualified to deal with security.

The usual disclaimer of course; this ain't happening any time soon.
All of what you state is very true except for unattended transit being a "non-issue". Monitoring 30 SkyTrain stations is nothing compared to monitoring a 1,000 moving buses scattered all over the region. Also the chances of having only 2 people on a SkyTrain car are next to zero but it can happen quite often on late night services. This could be a real safety concern especially for women.
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UK to ban new petrol and diesel car sales by 2030:
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Hybrids allowed until 2035.
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UK to ban new petrol and diesel car sales by 2030:
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Crushing the concept that conservatives are anti science and environment then?
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Crushing the concept that conservatives are anti science and environment then?
Too bad their conservatives and ours don't have that in common. Ask ours what their Climate plan is and all you'll get is buzzwords about how innovation will solve the problem. And of course an argument to sell more oil and gas to China.
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