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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?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 12 2019, @01:00PM (2 children)
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)
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
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
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.