Originally Posted by
Walter S
It's a dead giveaway when all you can dig out of people is what they believe will happen instead of also knowing what that's based on.
It's a dead giveaway of relative zealotry against the tech when you have to shift the basis of argument. The question we were discussing was will someone actually use them on public roads in the upcoming year. I think they will. Y'all keep introducing profit and rural roads and bad weather and a host of other issues. All valid concerns in the long term, but not particularly relevant to whether or not they'll get a pilot test in this year. The vehicles are capable of doing it and at the moment there is no actual legal bar in many states, so I think someone will do it. They need to for marketing reasons.
Beyond that, I don't know or really care how quickly they will or won't succeed. Everyone is not in a camp either for or against this tech. Some of us just watch what happens. You seem to have faith invested. I'm an agnostic.