The World When Everything Drives Itself

Frank Chen
Software Is Eating the World
1 min readFeb 5, 2018

Last year, I asked 16 questions about self-driving cars. My questions were mostly about the cars themselves:

This year, I pop up a level and ask what happens in our world and our everyday lives when self-driving electric car fleets become the default way we get around. Questions such as:

  • What do we do with all the malls and parking lots?
  • Who is at fault when cars get into accidents?
  • What new car shapes will there be?
  • How does a detective get sensor data from a car if that car happened to drive by a crime scene?
  • What giant pools of money will shrink or grow or change hands?

The whole presentation is a bit long (~50 minutes) but we chunked it into snack sized YouTube videos so you can watch it one workout at a time.

There’s a playlist for those who want to binge watch.

Enjoy! I had a ton of fun putting the presentation together and can’t wait for the fleets to come.

Here’s the first video to get you started:

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Frank Chen
Software Is Eating the World

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Writes about tech, startups, venture investing, science, the future. Likes explaining things. Opinions my own.