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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:17PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:17PM (#545152) Journal

    You should make it a general statement that applies to everyone, not just yourself.

    If I'm different from some others and I know it, in my honesty I can't make a statement that applies to them as well as me.
    Case at hand, I care not for the respect that one should get only because of age.

    And where would you get the notion that an owl is wise?

    (ok, for this case I'm willing to change the appellation to "stupid owl". Are you pleased now?)
    Eh, traditions, folklore, ancient ones, before people got televisions to dumb them down (so they needed to do it themselves... grin)
    You know Pallas Athena? The Greek goddess of wisdom and crafts? The western civilization believe she had a weak spot for owls [wikipedia.org] while in her young ages.

    That said, consider yourself despised.

    (Just in case you are interested: this is quite inconsequential to me or my quality of sleep)

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  • (Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:58PM

    by jimtheowl (5929) on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:58PM (#545170)
    Perhaps not something you were able to type into google, but making something of a statement is not the same as making a statement.

    Your name calling is inconsequential to me but it does say something about you, although I'm sure you don't care.