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[...] some experts believe as much as 95% of passenger miles could be electric, autonomous by 2030, thanks to some basic economics. Because electric vehicles cost a whole lot less to drive and maintain—but more to buy—and because autonomous vehicles greatly reduce the cost of commercial driving, a combination of the two technologies will make autonomous Transportation as a Service exponentially more cost competitive than either owning a car, or hiring a car and driver. It's also exponentially more profitable for car companies, who have long feared the loss of maintenance and service profits associated with a transition to electric cars.
This question will come up more frequently as self-driving technology advances. Will perfection of that technology make a difference, though, in the face of social behaviors that have been deeply ingrained over the past century?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @10:15AM
The owner of a self-driving car will certainly care just as much about the status of the car as the owner of a human-driven car. And unlike with human-driven car, he will likely know quite exactly who did travel in the car at which time, through booking data, so any misbehaviour will not only make you risk a ban from cars from that owner, but furthermore through data sharing/selling also possibly for cars from other owners, and maybe even for unrelated things like some restaurants.