The immediate implications are pretty clear. Self-driving cars could make getting from A to B faster, safer and, frankly, a whole lot less stressful. But that’s just scratching the surface of what could be the biggest shift the automotive industry has ever seen.
Once all cars are driving themselves, our road infrastructure can begin to change — after all, we won’t need speed limit signs or even traffic lights. Insurance policies go obsolete, parking garages become places where no humans ever need tread and maybe, just maybe, people will even stop buying cars in the first place.
What are the implications of this radical, impending disruption to the industry? For CES 2017 we’ve assembled a panel of experts to try and figure it out:<\/p>\n