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martyb
on Wednesday December 19 2018, @04:34AM
from the now-they're-buying...trucks? dept.
from the now-they're-buying...trucks? dept.
General Motors has announced it's shuttering five production facilities and killing six vehicle platforms by the end of 2019 as it reallocates resources towards self-driving technologies and electric vehicles.
[...] North American car production hit 17.5 million vehicles in 2016, and dropped marginally to 17.2 million in 2017. Interesting, but perhaps not significant.
More telling are changes in driver behaviour. In North America, for example, fewer teens are getting driver's licences. In 1983, 92 per cent of teens were licensed, while by 2014, that number had dropped to 77 per cent. In Germany, the number of new licences issued to drivers aged 17 to 25 has dropped by 300,000 over the last 10 years.
Are we over our love affair with cars?
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It takes a smart husband to have the last word and not use it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 19 2018, @08:17PM
Were fun, but with every year, and thanks to every overly irresponsible driver, it becomes a big harder to find somewhere to go out driving and actually enjoy your car.
Personally if it wasn't for the SUV culture in america, I would love to see keicars legalized here, so you could zip around at 55-65mph and find it an exciting drive, instead of boring with narrow lanes and some idiots dipping into your lane on 2 lane highways out in the mountains.
The city, well if you're doing anything stupid driving in the city now, expect an impersonal ticket, or a cop. There are cameras, both automated and realtime on every fourth intersection in my city in California now, and with every street light upgrade they are adding more. Pretty soon driving a car will be like a cell phone and your exact position will be tracked at all times.
I'm personally moving to an electric bicycle with regeneration and exchangable battery packs for long journeys. Expecting any privacy in America is a dead concept today. Just 30 years ago privacy was one of the greatest points of America over Communist Russia too. Thanks Americans, I'm real proud! You won the Battle against Russia and lost the war for Liberty.