ABSTRACT

This is the third and final policy chapter, and pulls from the entire book, to set forth policy recommendations for international driverless vehicle (DV) adoption by country, using the United States as a benchmark. I then provide adoption forecasts for a number of mostly-developed countries and identify differences and similarities in moral choices about priorities in case of an unavoidable accident around the world. At the end, I also briefly address technology transformation, consumer behavior, land use, transit use, zoning and parking regulations, public subsidy, and private investment in both the transitional and long-run impacts for both European and selected Asian metro areas. We normally assume, like in the United States, that when markets get to that stage, the same types of policies would apply: driverless vehicle adoption and mobility fleet investment behavior, unless otherwise noted, is more or less consistent across markets. A few final thoughts are also provided.