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Passenger Nation.(Column)
Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
Now that the Los Angeles show is in the fall, Detroit's competition for hot car news in January is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. That's where General Motors' CEO Rick Wagoner said we'll have driverless cars in a decade. This got more headlines than anything he said in Detroit.
The robotic car is heralded as a safety advance and a convenience for people who don't like driving. Okay. Aside from some powerful voices in media and government, who are these people?
Robotic cars are the pipe dream of an influential minority whose personal-transport budgets consist of taxi fares, limo fees and fuel for their private jets. They think letting a robot drive your car is a good idea.
Proponents note that most crashes are caused by driver error. Yet they've been refusing to teach driving properly for more than 30 years while investing in ever more electronics and automated systems. Is their agenda safety-or control?
Driverless cars would constitute a public transit system in which riders buy not just a ticket but the hardware, a Holy Grail of regulators for years. It's now technologically feasible, but that doesn't make it smart.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Passenger Nation.(Column)