Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

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That will be just as easy as enforcing gun control. No politician would survive - American society is predicated on everyone being able to drive anywhere, anytime.

In the vast majority of the US, if you can't or won't drive, you are regarded as abnormal, almost sub-human. A colleague of mine was eventually driven to the situation of having a non-drivers drivers license, because no one would accept checks without him showing his drivers license. And no, his passport wouldn't suffice, because the people behind the counter had never seen one and didn't accept that it was valid ID.

You'll never enforce stronger driving laws - driving is seen as a right, and you'll never take it away.

Who said anything about stronger driving laws or taking away the right to drive? Whether or not you have the right to drive, you don't have the right to drive illegally - with today's laws.

These cars are, no doubt, going to have cameras and sensors everywhere, so I'd say forget about putting cameras everywhere, just use the on-board cameras/sensors on the driverless cars themselves to catch people breaking driving laws.

I was responding to this:

    ... there's no reason we can't punish people by
    permanently taking away their drivers licenses
    for making even small mistakes.

That would require stronger driving laws.

I second this. Ohio recently passed a bill severely limiting the use of speed cameras. They caused to many unhappy citizens, regardless of the lives they probably saved.

Changing peoples habits (good or otherwise) is pretty difficult.

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