03-20-2018, 12:25 PM
"A number of major car companies have announced the dates by which they will only make electric cars, ranging from 2019-2023. Self-driving cars will be introduced during that time frame and soon after. Then we'll say, self-driving electric cars are... cars."
The car manufacturers correctly forecast that the dogpiling of regulations would eventually make cars too expensive for individuals to own so they modified their business model from selling vehicles to selling the individual rides. The self-driving cars won't be sold to us. They will own and maintain the vehicles, and they will charge us by the mile (or whatever) to ride in them. Eventually they will be the only vehicles allowed on most roads. There will be a lot less cars on the road and in parking lots (most cars are only actively driven about 15% of their existence, sometimes much less, autonomous vehicles will just go from one paying ride to the next).
Eventually it will be robots building cars that will be driven by other robots, but I'm confident that the Hawaii version of the DMV will find a way to make the bureaucratic process overly burdensome on everybody.
The car manufacturers correctly forecast that the dogpiling of regulations would eventually make cars too expensive for individuals to own so they modified their business model from selling vehicles to selling the individual rides. The self-driving cars won't be sold to us. They will own and maintain the vehicles, and they will charge us by the mile (or whatever) to ride in them. Eventually they will be the only vehicles allowed on most roads. There will be a lot less cars on the road and in parking lots (most cars are only actively driven about 15% of their existence, sometimes much less, autonomous vehicles will just go from one paying ride to the next).
Eventually it will be robots building cars that will be driven by other robots, but I'm confident that the Hawaii version of the DMV will find a way to make the bureaucratic process overly burdensome on everybody.