What will the world be like in 2030?

You can forget about Self Driving Cars everything else is pretty good. Automated cars will be massively rejected by the community, just because reddit and this subreddit especially is so very inclined to them world has a very different view.

Let me put it like this the driver is the middle class which right now is buying cars that were made between 2001-2009 mainly in 2030 expect the middle class to be buying cars made in 2018-2028.

No body will want to use publicly shared automated cars no-body because no body wants to put their stuff on vomit-seemen-piss-alcohol-shit stained seats and floors.

And good luck convincing it won't be like that because 2 cities have public shared car service one has an autoamted car service (not fully automated but the cars have the highway auto and automatic parking) anyway every user is registered and companies are barely keeping up with maintenance and cleaning.

Second expect such legislature to have higher opposition than an all out ban or restriction or regulation of guns, or try and pass a law forbiding people to eat fast food. Because fast food kills more people than car accidents as a catalyst.

Third Private ownership will be a must because people just wont want public-shared ones and until middle class recovers don't expect them to be investing into those.

Fourth Public-shared automated cars won't work on wide areas and you would need a stupid amount of them because private ownership means when you need to go somewhere you go you don't have to wait for one to come by or as in case of Stuttgard go looking for one.

All in all automated cars will be here but don't expect them to be the standard in 2030 the opposition to them will be off the charts. The number of carnuts is much much much much heigher than gunnuts try passing gun legislation. I think you would have an easier time convincing 1st world countries to turn communist.

There is no addressing the problems of:
- Construction sites
- Special areas
- Undefined roads
- Foreign territories and so many more...

And the simply massive industries that would directly oppose such legislation. Automated cars sure they will make headway and be a big deal and also gain some traction but don't expect legislature limiting manual driving.

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