Autonomous Vehicles Won't Need Horns

If you aren't already sold on the idea of autonomous vehicles imagine never hearing honking car horns. The computers will communicate with each other wirelessly. How pleasant. Will autonomous vehicles use horns to signal human drivers who are about to cause an accident? Even if they do horn use will decline. Autonomous vehicle research has turned up some lessons about dangerous human drivers. What struck me about it: if vehicles could just detect when drivers aren't paying attention the vehicles could apply the brakes and beep at the driver with an inside speaker. Anyone want to hazard a prediction in the comments? In what year will vehicles under autonomous operation do 1% of the miles traveled per year? When will...
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