Senate Minority Leader Thomas Kean Jr. (R-Union) is really excited about the driverless cars (some being sponsored by Google) and says New Jersey needs laws and rules and such for driverless cars and he thinks he should be the one to write them.
Sign says: Slow down.
First off driverless cars are further away than you seem to think. Want to know the sticking point you either failed to address or avoided? Insurance. If Johnny has a driverless car that is being driven by Google, with roadmaps by Google, with cameras and laser sensors to keep you safe from say a company like Raytheon why should Johnny pay for insurance? Let Google and Raytheon. They're the ones guaranteeing the vehicles are safe and ready to roll without accident. Let Johnny put it to you another way State Senator Kean Jr.; If Johnny has to pay for the insurance HE will be driving his car. No way in hell will Johnny ever give up driving his own car (ever) but if you expect people to be driven around in a driverless car the state or someone else is paying the insurance.
Got that? You better or this driverless car lark will fail even bigger than we think it will. Johnny doesn't pay insurance on cab rides and he's not driving then. Mr. Kean if you think somebody else is going to drive the populace you'd better figure out the insurance and liability on such matters before you go all Jetsons. You'd also better plan for the fact some people, like Johnny, actually enjoy driving and aren't giving up the keys, especially with a Michigan driving pedigree. Maybe Mr. Kean Jr. isn't confident in his own driving. Maybe he gets askeered driving in the Garden State.
99% of us are just fine driving ourselves. The rest own Toyotas.
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