Quote Originally Posted by Zundfolge View Post
Not just that but a massive amount of legislation and infrastructure restructuring away.

Autonomous vehicles and driver driven vehicles really can't co-exist on the same roads so you'll have to have something akin to HOV lanes on major highways for the autonomous vehicles or you have to completely ban driver driven vehicles (which would be politically difficult if not impossible). And that's just on rural highways and interstates. Autonomous vehicles in town are probably more like half a century away as the AI that can co-exist on city roads with other human drivers, pedestrians and etc is several orders of magnitude more complex than the AI that would pilot an autonomous vehicle down a highway full of other autonomous vehicles.
Full autonomous driving will be a thing in the next couple of years. Elon keeps saying "feature ready" for Tesla by the end of this year. I'm done discounting crazy shit he says because he seems to deliver more often than not. The next hurdle will be regulation which could be years to overcome.

Why is it you think they can't coexist on the same roadways? I don't see why separate lanes would be necessary. Even with the vintage autopilot systems we have data on they're safer than manually driving and only improving day after day so I don't see it as such a concern that we need to sandbox them from the people manually driving.