Re: Pearls Before Swine: Talking Technical with Young People

On 1/6/2025 10:36 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>
Manually driving a car will become a rare skill, and insurance
policies will either carry expensive riders, or simply not cover
it.

 Perhaps for a while, but after a decade or so manually-driven cars will
be theftproof because the kids stealing cars won't know how to drive.
This will have the effect of reducing insurance costs on some vehicles in
some locations.

You have a point on theft, but I was thinking more of liability - if
self-driving cars have far fewer accidents than manually driven ones,
the insurance companies will charge an arm and a leg if you insist
on taking control yourself.
pt