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Ikea already delivers. It's difficult to imagine that they'll deliver less when they won't have to hire drivers to do so. The robo-delivery-van won't only lack a steering wheel, it will lack a seat. I envision doors on the front, and sliding dividers that push the next delivery forward when the van backs out of the driveway of the preceding delivery. These will not be cars as we have known them. Most people today don…
One positive thing of emasculating ourselves from cars will be the dear of the car chase trope in French, Chinese, American, Australian, Indian and Nigerian cinema.
I'd expect chase scenes to endure, and they'll probably include robocars, but also hacks to get around/take advantage of their inherent chase limitations. E.g.: someone on a bicycle could intentionally ride through a crowd of pedestrians knowing that robocars won't just blast through to follow. Or the police could shut down a robocar remotely, but the fugitive could figure out how to escape the locked car. Etc.