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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Well then you'd be talking about autonomous busses and taxis, stuff that operates "for hire" like commercial aircraft, not people "driving" their own autonomous cars.
You are right, regulation is lax. Regulation is the last thing that people seen to want or will vote for. It's a catch 22. People will be literally dying from their freedom, but they'd rather have that then regulation to keep them safe. It is what it is.
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My problem with ground-based automation is society will install it at the lowest implementation cost possible, which means it will not work well and we all get to be Guinea pigs for big tech, while they try to get it worked out. Ground autonomous driving is never going to reach the safety levels of air traffic even throwing GA into the mix (even in Alaska too
). People thinking having machines drive cars around is going to improve safety are not aware of the complexities of it. Traffic is going to have to slow down, thin out, and personal travel will become less convenient.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."