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Driverless cars

Let’s get off the political insanity for a moment and discuss something that may become a real possibility, driverless cars. By now most have heard or read about advances that have been made to develop a vehicle that does not need a driver. Do you really need car insurance if you own a driverless car? If you do, what coverage would one need? Do you really need a license to own and operate one of these vehicles?

Would it not be cheaper to rent as needed or to take mass transport driverless vehicles? Or would it give rise to more Uber like businesses? Would this technology make it’s way into air travel as well? Who decides how these vehicles are programmed for use by consumers? Will consumers even have a say? Will it require a different road system? If not, then how does it get integrated into our road and vehicle system? Then there is the question of the program getting hacked or infected with a virus. Will this technology be integrated into agricultural equipment as well? What will happen to the people who make a living operating vehicles for a living?

Some may say this is something way off in the future but the way technology has exploded is it really that far off in the future? Too often we are too busy looking at the new technology without looking at the questions that need to be answered because of it. Probably because no one thought to ask in the first place.

Charles M. Reeder

Montoursville

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