The conspiracy keeping self-driving cars off our streets

A survey by Emerj Research last year revealed that the world’s top carmakers believe fully autonomous cars will hit our roads sometime between 2025 and 2030. Hackett also said that when the self-driving car does arrive “its application will be narrow, what we call geo-fenced, because the problem is so complex”. I believe we will not see self-driving cars on our roads en masse before 2050. Let’s also ignore the 716 legal barriers preventing autonomous cars from driving on Australian roads. Autonomous cars don’t need to sit idle waiting for a driver, so fewer cars could handle more trips.