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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 11 2019, @11:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the on-the-road-again dept.

Phys.org:

Losing even one in 10 customers would substantially reduce airlines' revenue. They don't make much money on each flight as it is; less income would likely cause them to shrink their service, flying fewer routes less frequently.

The problem wouldn't just be customers who chose not to fly. Some passengers might split trips between self-driving cars and airplanes, which would further reduce airlines' revenue. For instance, a person in Savannah, Georgia, who wants to go to London could choose to change planes in Atlanta—or take a self-driving car to the Atlanta airport, and skip the layover.

These changes could substantially change the aviation industry, with airlines ordering fewer airplanes from manufacturers, airports seeing fewer daily flights and lower revenue from parking lots, and even airport hotels hosting fewer guests. The future of driverless cars is appealing to consumers—which means the future of commercial flight is in danger.

A personal fondling session from a TSA agent named Brad, or 5 hours in your self-driving Mazda that your four-year old smeared peanut butter in?


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday June 12 2019, @04:00AM (8 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday June 12 2019, @04:00AM (#854512) Journal

    http://www.lifeasatrucker.com/how-much-is-a-shower-at-a-truck-stop-.html [lifeasatrucker.com]
    https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/cost-of-showers-laundry-at-truck-stops.145806/ [thetruckersreport.com]
    http://www.girlmeetsroad.com/morning-took-shower-truck-stop/ [girlmeetsroad.com]

    If you need a shower, looks like you can get one for ~$5-15 if you plan your route to hit a travel center. Maybe just get it right before arriving at your destination.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @04:20AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @04:20AM (#854517)

    If you need a shower, looks like you can get one for ~$5-15 if you plan your route to hit a travel center

    I'm guessing the truck stop hookers would be cheaper (possibly significantly so) than one you found online who will come to your hotel.

    It's a win/win!

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @07:07AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @07:07AM (#854549)

      Escorts technically aren't hookers, plus they add in transit cost to and from the hotel. Unless you're talking about the ones that hang around in the bar/lobby of high end hotels. They're expensive since the hotel staff gets a cut.

      Self driving cars would be a boon to the sex work industry. No need for hotels or corners. John calls, you pick them up and the car drives around the block while you work. You can call yourself a ride share service. With heavy tint.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @02:31PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @02:31PM (#854660)

        Yep. And military advisers aren't technically soldiers either.

        I'm aware of the economics (as is probably anyone else who gives it about 30 seconds of thought).

        I will take issue with your treatment of transit costs, especially as electric vehicles become more common, so will the practice of hotels and other places providing free charging. This will allow (sanctioned or not) the hookers to reduce fuel costs significantly.

        As for the cost of a place to do business, out-call [quora.com] means that the john provides the location, not the escort. So that's not an issue unless you're picking up street hookers, which is a significantly different scenario, and those girls likely won't have a car anyway.

        As such, it's unlikely that the out-call girls will bring you to their own cars (self-driving or not), given that they are coming to you in the first place, and they generally have a driver who provides both transportation and muscle, often to multiple girls.

        Besides, can't we just accept the trope that truck-stop whores are generally skankier than out-call escorts and, as such, they will generally charge less? Just sayin'.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @11:42AM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday June 12 2019, @11:42AM (#854625)

    how-much-is-a-shower-at-a-truck-stop

    ?

    What's your _X_ virginity worth to you? There are lots of experiences available at truck stops (whether you're willing or not) that most people prefer to never have.

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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 12 2019, @01:00PM (2 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday June 12 2019, @01:00PM (#854638) Journal

      It's $CURRENT_YEAR. Are you sure you gonna get raped at the truck stop?

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @03:34PM (1 child)

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday June 12 2019, @03:34PM (#854676)

        It's $CURRENT_YEAR, people still get raped, mugged, beat up for little or no reason, shot, etc. and if that's going to happen, a truck stop is one of the higher odds places for it to happen.

        Worst I ever experienced was in $CURRENT_YEAR-30 when a bunch of loitering teens decided they didn't like the brand of my car and threw a perfectly good apple pie onto the windshield - funny in retrospect, but... in my concern at the time I backed out and left quickly, not paying attention to the motorcycles parked behind me, luckily I didn't knock them over or that night would probably have been even more fun.

        But, I will grant you, since they removed the lead from the gasoline, the senseless violence seems to have tapered down quite a bit, not to zero, but it has definitely improved.

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        • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday June 12 2019, @06:44PM

          by Osamabobama (5842) on Wednesday June 12 2019, @06:44PM (#854773)

          I think there's something wrong with y'all's html. Neither one of you was able to get your current year variable to parse.

          Try it like this: 2019

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @11:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @11:05PM (#854898)

    I've seen it as cheap as $3 with a clean towel thrown in.

    People don't like sleeping in their cars. I do it on long trips, and take a hotel every other night (EG, driving a 7000km trip or what not). You just pull over in a rest stop, and go to sleep.

    I don't see how a self-driving car changes things, except you get more distance. You'd probably get less sleep with cars driving around, but who knows. People are weird.