A solution to this would be if mechanics would come to every owner’s house, inspect the cars, and do repairs, but that’s not unique to autonomous cars. Plus, that’s super expensive. Not the best solution by far.
Alternatively, since the cars are autonomous, they could report to repair facilities on their own, and return to owners once repairs are complete. This might be a decent solution if the owner can program which repair facility the car should go to, likely based on what’s cheapest or well known.
These are the only solutions I can think of that don’t include a third party owning the cars themselves, with monitor where the cars are and can direct them to their own repair facility (or one of their choosing). Doesn’t really seem so far off from the owner’s having this control now that I think of it.
Manufacturers would probably require owners to go to their garages, autonomous cars would probably kill of most independent mechanics. Then we’ll see massive price gouging and planned obsolescence - this is the same industry that had widespread cheating on emission testing after all
A solution to this would be if mechanics would come to every owner’s house, inspect the cars, and do repairs, but that’s not unique to autonomous cars. Plus, that’s super expensive. Not the best solution by far.
Alternatively, since the cars are autonomous, they could report to repair facilities on their own, and return to owners once repairs are complete. This might be a decent solution if the owner can program which repair facility the car should go to, likely based on what’s cheapest or well known.
These are the only solutions I can think of that don’t include a third party owning the cars themselves, with monitor where the cars are and can direct them to their own repair facility (or one of their choosing). Doesn’t really seem so far off from the owner’s having this control now that I think of it.
Manufacturers would probably require owners to go to their garages, autonomous cars would probably kill of most independent mechanics. Then we’ll see massive price gouging and planned obsolescence - this is the same industry that had widespread cheating on emission testing after all