The development in the field of process automation driving should increase the usability of land transport and improve the security situation on the road (at least in countries with high driving culture). Google founders generally believe that the personal transport could be phased out, and cars on the streets would be much less. Larry Page, for example, recently announced that 40-hour work week may be waived, as most people go to work for communication, and material needs could be met by a much smaller resources. He suggested that instead of corporations to hire an employee with an 8-hour shift, two employees with a 4-hour shift. This will solve the unemployment problem, and at the same time allow people to devote more time to personal life.
According to the newspaper The Guardian, a special FBI report revealed some of the threats associated with the omnipresence of the future unmanned cars. First of all, the U.S. law enforcers fear that such a car will be able to fire the offender for his haunting secret service vehicles, completely distracted from the road. Furthermore, deprived driver vehicle can be packed with explosives and sent to the destination on a given route.
However, there are optimistic moments. The FBI believes that the number of traffic accidents with the transition to auto drived vehicles must come down, and pursue automatic vehicles will be easier: you can withstand provides observation security distance and make diversions without the fear of missing out on the persecuted. According to the report, the U.S. operation unmanned vehicles on public roads is permitted everywhere in five to seven years.
Representatives of Toyota corporation , see also automatically controlled cars drawbacks. For example, they believe that the reduction in travel time due to the optimization of road traffic will be used by many Americans for evacuation from the place of work at a greater distance. As a result, the time on the road to the place of work they will spend as much as before, and the distance increases. This will cause an increase in fuel consumption and will be detrimental to the urban environment. According to experts, people tend to transform the increased speed of movement in space not in time savings, and increase to overcome the distance.