{"id":91696,"date":"2019-06-06T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/driverless-cars-once-theyre-on-the-road-human-drivers-should-be-banned"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:22:24","slug":"driverless-cars-once-theyre-on-the-road-human-drivers-should-be-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/driverless-cars-once-theyre-on-the-road-human-drivers-should-be-banned","title":{"rendered":"Driverless cars: once they\u2019re on the road, human drivers should be banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/driverless-cars-once-theyre-on-the-road-human-drivers-should-be-banned2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-driving cars could revolutionise people\u2019s lives. By the end of the next decade, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/22\/business\/elon-musk-tesla-autopilot.html\">perhaps even sooner<\/a>, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They\u2019ll also be much better behaved than human drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Robot drivers won\u2019t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park where they shouldn\u2019t. They won\u2019t drive under the influence of drink or drugs. They\u2019ll never get tired or behave aggressively. They won\u2019t be distracted by changing the music or sending a text, and they\u2019ll never be trying to impress their mates.<\/p>\n<p>Driverless cars could also change the face of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/public+spaces\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">public spaces<\/a>. Private cars are very expensive items that do absolutely nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2016\/03\/10\/its-true-the-typical-car-is-parked-95-percent-of-the-time\/\">95%<\/a> of the time. They are economically viable only because paying a taxi driver for all your car journeys would be even more expensive. Once cars don\u2019t need human drivers, this cost balance should tip the other way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-driverless-cars-theyre-road-human.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars could revolutionise people\u2019s lives. By the end of the next decade, or perhaps even sooner, they could radically transform public spaces and liberate us from the many problems of mass car ownership. They\u2019ll also be much better behaved than human drivers. Robot drivers won\u2019t break the speed limit, jump the lights, or park [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}