“A major city bans parking and cars with drivers from a non-trivial portion of a city so that driverless cars have free reign in that area. NET 2027. BY 2031. (This will be the starting point for a turning of the tide toward driverless cars.)”
Roboticist; MIT Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics; co-founder and CTO of Robust.AI
Said Jan 1, 2018Deadline Dec 31, 2031Rodney Brooks, "My Dated Predictions," rodneybrooks.com, January 1, 2018
Brooks says the NET 2027 floor is safe because 'no cities anywhere (except perhaps Singapore) have even given this any thought'; the BY 2031 upper bound remains open.