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Shall We Eliminate Human Driving, Driverless Cars As Chicken-Or-Egg

Lance Eliot
12 min readApr 16, 2019

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Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider

Will human driving become extinct like the dinosaurs, or will humans always be driving

What is your relationship with driving?

Kind of a curious question, I realize, but it goes to the heart of the matter about whether you are someone that craves being able to drive a car or instead consider driving to be a burdensome task that happens to be a necessity. Ponder for a moment where you fall on the spectrum of driving interests, consisting at one end of the gamut are those that are extremely passionate about being able to drive and at the other end are those that would just as soon not drive if they could avoid doing so (perhaps even abhorring the act of driving).

Driving Is A Privilege, Not A Right

For those that do drive a car, they often are quite strong willed about their perceived “right” to drive.

There are some people that seem to think that driving a car is a constitutional right, which is a misnomer. I am not sure why there are people that believe they have a right to drive.

Let’s be clear that by-and-large there is no viable “right” of driving. It is not in the Constitution. In the United States, driving is considered a privilege. This means that there is a governmental authority, usually the states, upon which there is a granting of the privilege to…

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Lance Eliot
Lance Eliot

Written by Lance Eliot

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a renowned global expert on AI, successful startup founder, global CIO/CTO, , was a top exec at a major Venture Capital (VC) firm.

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