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Your Next Car Will Plug-in. the One After That May Not Exist...

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:55AM   
from the I'm-sorry-Dave,-I-can't-do-that dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

[...] 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?

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• Re:Just what I never wanted (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday July 26 2017, @06:27PM

  by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday July 26 2017, @06:27PM (#544776) Journal

  San Diego is, by far, the most car-centric city I've ever visited. One of my colleagues checked into the same hotel as me. The first question he was asked was what his car registration number was so that it wouldn't be clamped in their system. After he said that he didn't have a car, he asked how to get to the nearest mobile phone shop to get a local SIM. The person behind the desk who, under a minute ago had been told that he didn't have a car, gave him driving directions (to the strip mall across the road). I love the weather you guys have, but the city is insane.

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