yeah, i love the concept however would never buy an automated car. never. i'll never fully trust something i have little to no input or control over.

i like driving, i like the feeling I love the experience, i love maintaining and knowing my car, i have a connection with my car. I will not have this with a futuristic egg looking dome that i cannot interact with.

the concept is incredible and whoever adopts it, godspeed. But it isn't me and i know i'm not alone.

I believe there are some truly horrible drivers on the road, i believe education and defensive driving courses will reduce loss of life.

you can steal an automated car man, the technology built into it like a fingerprint scanner or retina scanner or even a pin code, theives won't have this info. i can't see them being a Key turn vehicle it will be like a fingerprint scanner for sure like unlocking your phone or something, plus they'll have GPS and all kinds of stuff built in, they won't go fast, they will do speed limits until they hit highways and then highway limits, (not great getawaty cars) remote disable... locks theives inside. not worth it.

taxis i can see may have a market in this, in the same way uber taxis are ordered, you order them through your phone and a little shuttle bus comes around, you punch in what time you need to reach your destination and the add will calculate current traffic/ distance/ etc etc and tell you when to be ready. automated billing system. (not hard to set up)

private use will be a long long way away from a mass adoption sense, they can push all they want, only super advanced nations can adopt and push this tech, the market elsewhere relies on Diesel Work vehicles and i have seen no prototypes of that...

I doubt Road Haulage will ever be automated, those things carry so much weight unless they have roads of their own, it's too risky, with a driver sitting there with no control over the machine who knows what can happen, it can be estimated but non conclusive.

where we will have a problem is when you have the transitional phase of automated cars and human drivers on the road together, you can imagine how that's going to pan out. a human who can adapt just as well as a robot and then the robot car extra cautious and slow.

This is just going to take forever to implement. the infrastructure needs to move with the technology, there are still red light traffic jams in the world. sort that problem out and then look at robots. half the accidents take place in the intersections, lights are ancient, we need to build better roads not automatic drivers.