The self driving cars will be more expensive to purchase and more expensive to maintain.
For the self driving part to work, all the input sensors will need to be maintained in top order. It's not unlike the requirements for autopilots on commercial airliners (which can and do fail due to component issues). I don't know what or if any redundancy is built into these cars. Replacing sensors will likely require special calibration and/or procedures that is beyond joe bob's backyard garage. When the car with no steering wheel decides that it's too sick to drive itself then you are dead in the water, no reversion of any kind available.
Apparently there are still significant issue with these thing driving in inclement weather. Road salt? Mud? Flying Rocks? Cow Poo? I haven't seen any article where any manufacturers are addressing the needs and issues for rural customers. How do you meander through a pasture checking cows when you have no steering wheel?
For the money, I just don't see the average working class American being able to buy into these systems. IMO it's mostly media hype and "shiny new toy" syndrome.
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