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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Expensive stuff didn’t stop the mass adoption of more expensive things like automatic transmissions or SUVs, but level 5 autonomy is a few years away, yet you are right that mass adoption will take some time. Many things will influence that.
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Mass adoption of automatic transmissions took decades. GM started selling the hydromatic in 1940 (or maybe '39), others had automatic transmissions back as far as the early 1900's, but even into the 80's more than half of all vehicles sold were still MT and in 1995 it was still 25% or so.
SUVs have also been around forever (the longest selling car moniker is "Suburban" after all) but I agree adoption rates grew exponentially in the last couple of decades after the minivan fell out of favor.