With more people dying in car accidents then in all wars in history, we need self driving cars ASAP.
Cars themselves will know what is around the corner because they'll be connected to a network where they can see what the car is ahead of them sees, as well as traffic camera data. We can reduce accidents down to zero.
We'll be able to put parks in parking lots; parking lots will be a thing of the past.
Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
just imagine when you were sitting at a red light 20 cars back; you see the light turn green, but you don't start moving till its already red again. Why? because every car has to wait till the car ahead of it starts moving before it can more, but when cars are driven by computers on a connected network they could all start accelerating as soon as the light turns green.
But we won't need lights anymore. since the cars will know where each other are, they can go through intersections intermittently without slowing down.
More cars can be on the road.
With these advances we'll be able to have more cars on the road at any given time, so we'll be able to stop expanding roads.
This is one to 4 years away. Just imagine what would happen if they started showing more pictures on the news of car accidents. people will demand the technology be made mandatory. Once the technology is ready it will be out within a couple years, the technology is almost ready.
The companies that are in the front of the race of self driving cars are Tesla, google, BMW, Mercedes, Volvo, and chip companies are set to make a lot too, intel, amd, and more. Any sectors or companies you think would go up once self driving cars are mainstream? please let me know!