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Self-Driving Cars: Yay or Nay?

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Until recently, self-driving cars have been science fiction, but they are gaining popularity and becoming a reality. Self-driving vehicles are fitted with autopilot technology, sensors, and cameras to navigate the car instead of the driver’s expertise or instinct. Self-driving cars give an impression of the best machine a person can acquire, but like anything else, have some pros and cons. In this article, we’ll address them all!

They May Lower the Rate of Accidents

A recent study determined that 90% of accidents are caused by human fault (mainly distracted driving) while 10% is caused by vehicle break down, overwhelming variables, and poor weather conditions. Upgrading to self-driving cars could decrease accidents by 90% and possibly cut accident-related expenditures. Additionally, people living with disabilities have an advantage since the self-driving vehicles offer freedom and guarantee mobility.

They’ll Improve the Overall Safety of Motorcyclists

Motorcycle drivers are some of the most vulnerable drivers on the road. Poor visibility places them at a greater risk since they do not have a protective steel cage, safety belts, air bags, or other protective measures during an accident.

Self-driving cars make it safer for these motorcyclists to drive near them since they do not have blind spots thanks to the cameras and the sensors installed around them. Now that you know some of the advantages of self-driving vehicles, let’s take a look at the disadvantages.

With a Driver, They’re Without Human Instinct

A typical car would swerve or slam on the brakes in case a pedestrian is on the road in an attempt to avoid hitting them. Unfortunately, that is not the case with the self-driving car. The technology installed in self-driving vehicles have no human instincts that can prevent an accident from happening.

They’re Vulnerable to Hackers

Self-driving cars depend on combined cloud technology to increase their capability to drive safely. In case there are traffic or poor weather conditions, the information is uploaded to the cloud and downloaded to improve other cars’ driving abilities. Unfortunately, this combined cloud technology is vulnerable to hackers and other forms of cyber-attacks.

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People do it all the time (rarely for free) but the official answer is no.

Not what you wanted to hear, we know, but that is the honest answer.

We are not licensed to broker the shipment of household goods and, likewise, no car carrier that operates in the USA is licensed to transport them from state to state either. Despite what you might be being told by other car shipping companies you may speak with.

Remember, at the end of the day we're all salespeople, and the true answer to this question is not a great selling point.

You will hear a lot of companies tell you that you can put up to 100 pounds of items in the trunk, but that is not entirely true. That fact is that items of that amount are fairly common and the department of transportation is probably not going to split hairs and fine the trucker over items of that amount, provided they are not over their weight limit. They could fine them, however, if they see a vehicle stuffed full of personal items so the car carrier will most likely try to negotiate something with you to cover themselves against any costs they could incur. It's not something we can build into your contract though.

We have a short and helpful video on this topic in our user videos.

Only in rare cases and car carriers will usually charge a premium to make it happen.

All dates given by car carriers are typically estimates and projections.

For this reason (and to keep your cost down) we ask that you build in some flexibility and give us the earliest possible date you would be WILLING to release the vehicle, even though it may not be your preferred date.

We'll put you in direct contact with your car carrier and the driver will also typically call you the afternoon or evening before your pick up and delivery (they won't just show up unannounced, and if they do we want to hear about it). However, car carriers are out on the road battling traffic, weather and any number of other factors that can and do throw them off of their pickup and delivery projections from time to time.

If the projected dates we give you come and you are unable to make contact with your carrier, please call our office immediately so that we may help resolve the situation.

The average transit time from pick up to delivery on any vehicle going coast to coast will average 7 to 10 days. From there you can figure your transit time based on how far your vehicle is traveling, i.e. from either coast to the Midwest might average 3-7 days.

Yes!

Even better, we do not even ask for payment until we have you confirmed for pickup by a safe, reliable, fully insured, direct car carrier. If for any reason you do not ship your car with the carrier that we arrange for you, there is no fee.

The fees paid directly to the carrier however, (in most cases, their fees are not paid until your vehicle is delivered) are not directly controlled by us, so any requests for a refund of the carrier's portion would need to be addressed with the carrier directly.

Of course! And you are always backed by our Damage Free Guarantee policy.

Part of what you pay us for is to verify that the car carrier that we put you on is covered by the proper amount of insurance and that everything is up to date.

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