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by eightysixfour 450 days ago
There is already a mechanism for this that the government doesn’t even have to be directly involved in - insurance. At some point you become prohibitively expensive to insure.

However, the government still has to do its part and actually enforce insurance requirements.

My pet hypothesis is that there is a tipping point where the feedback loop between driver safety, ai advancements, and insurance costs will doom manually driven cars faster than most people think.

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> At some point you become prohibitively expensive to insure.

This would probably just cause more uninsured drivers. For California, that's around 17% [1]!

[1] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-uninsure...

Yes, that’s why I said

> However, the government still has to do its part and actually enforce insurance requirements.