Ka-pi96 said:
RCTjunkie said:
sterner said:
There won't be "customers" in 20 years. Transportation companies will operate swarm of small electrocar taxis around the city which you will call from mobile device. I've read a paper on subject, prognosed costs of a trip in such a taxi is so less than conventional car you gotta be a complete lunatic to own one. Not to mention you'll be taxed into hell since human-drived cars are a huge hazard and any sane government will just abolish them when they can.
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I doubt they'll have enough employees for thay endeavor, and it might take off in large cities like NYC but the technologies won't be perfected enough for either having enough taxi drivers or self driving cars.
Plus most conservatives and many liberals would hate not being able to have the freedom to drive.
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This. Especially in the US, they make sure they keep their rights to have guns there so there isn't a chance that they'd give up the right to drive.
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Except the world is not USA. Plenty of people find driving annoying and damn expensive. You have to buy a license, get it, buy a car, pay for insurance, pay for car's maintenance (or we say upkeep in english, I don't know...), spend money on wichever energy your car use...
Outside of housing, driving is the second more expensive thing in common people budget.
While it won't convince every driver, I am sure their already are plenty of potential client who will be happy to forget about driving and the expense it suggests.
