Sports Cars As Self-Driving Cars

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

[Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/]

Aha, the joys of driving a high-performance sports car!

You feel the sports car hugging the road and the nimble handling allows you to sweetly make those tight turns.

Some people get a sports car because they like the speed, handling, and the other features that allow for a special driving experience.

Some get a sports car because they love the image of a sports car, and a sports car driver, often seen as someone that relishes the open road, a maverick, and that craves the looks of other people as they turn their heads to see what that sports car is (and who’s in it).

When someone drives a sports car, they can do so on our public roadways or drive it on private so-called closed tracks.

Driving Top-End Sports Cars On Public Roadways

In theory, when you drive a sports car on a public roadway, you are supposed to abide by the driving laws.

It doesn’t really matter that you happen to have a sports car. The speed limit is the same for a junkie jalopy as it is for the souped-up sports…