Autonomous Vehicles: Everything You Need to Know for 2020

Edge cases, EV and air travel precedent, the case for regulation, and the adoption of semi-autonomous vehicles.

Table Of Contents:

1. 🤚 Pump the breaks: Why Autonomous Vehicles Aren’t Ready
2. 🏎 Floor It: What to Expect This Year and into 2020
3. 🛑 Stoplight: The Case for Regulation
4. 🔚 Conclusion: A world without drunk driving, day care, or driver’s ed.

🤚 Pump the breaks: Why Autonomous Vehicles Aren’t Ready

Introduction: AVs following the trend of EVs

We talk about AVs — or autonomous vehicles — as though they’re already a part of daily life. As you read this, they’re replacing buses; they’re freeing up DMV lines and parking lots while cutting emissions, costs, and accidents; they’re further advancing the notion that AI is killing jobs (and/or creating new ones).

…not quite. Remember when the first highway-legal electric vehicles (or EVs) came out?

Tesla’s all electric Roadster was the first of its kind just a decade ago. In 2012, there were only 109,000 all electric…