Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years, and I know there will be benefits, but has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry once this &quot;works&quot;?<p>The fall-out is going to be intense:<p>* Fuel-stops are going to change completely, what&#x27;s the point of half of the motels on long-haul drives when your car can drive all night and likely recharge automatically at a stop-point.<p>* Reduced downtime on goods movement will impact uptime in every other industry.<p>* Autonomous-vehicle-only lanes that line up with traffic timings creating a two-tier driving experience<p>* Huge influx of unemployed drivers who I guess might get &quot;chauffeur&quot; style jobs.<p>* Security issues, complex legal issues when there&#x27;s accidents.<p>* Fake taxi&#x27;s that drive a customer into a bad experience for &quot;lols&quot;.<p>I know all this is extreme, but if history is studying the past to understand the present, science-fiction is studying the &quot;future&quot; to predict the problems of tomorrow.