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Do you actuallly beleive what you are writing? From outside the SV bubble the future is cars. Electric, self driving, rentable and owned as well. Where I live t

Do you actuallly beleive what you are writing? From outside the SV bubble the future is cars. Electric, self driving, rentable and owned as well. Where I live there is reasonable public transport infrastructure. Self driving ridesharing mobility service from my point of view. I do not find it clean enough, I do not like the people I often have to share my ride. I prefer an own car. This won't change by "self driving uber", because people prefer privacy, and an own vechicle can give privacy and intimacy which a rended one will never provide.

woah 10y ago
Doesn't your dislike of other people also make you dislike public transit, meaning your first point and your second point contradict each other?
- kodfodrasz 10y ago
  I have no problem with the vast majority of other people. I have problems with some small minorities (based on behaviour, cleanliness, etc), and not being able to select who I share my ride with is the problem. The future mobility is either fancy name for taxis, without a driver who makes sure the car is clean, and works at a low utilization (1-2 people per car) as current cars, or small buses where I cannot choose who I travel with, which doesn't fit for everybody. So my point is: no big revolution is comin up, only incremental evolution.
intrasight 10y ago
I do believe that the future is mobility services. I don't think it's going to happen soon but I do believe it is going to happen. I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads.
- Reason077 10y ago
  I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads. I don't think that's going to happen. It might happen on some roads, in order to reduce congestion or whatever, but there's no reason to ban human drivers in general. That's because "autopilots" can run in passive/safety mode, ready to take over and prevent you doing anything really stupid. This is already starting to happen, in fact, with AEB to be installed in all new cars by 2022.

woah 10y ago

Doesn't your dislike of other people also make you dislike public transit, meaning your first point and your second point contradict each other?

kodfodrasz 10y ago
I have no problem with the vast majority of other people. I have problems with some small minorities (based on behaviour, cleanliness, etc), and not being able to select who I share my ride with is the problem. The future mobility is either fancy name for taxis, without a driver who makes sure the car is clean, and works at a low utilization (1-2 people per car) as current cars, or small buses where I cannot choose who I travel with, which doesn't fit for everybody. So my point is: no big revolution is comin up, only incremental evolution.

intrasight 10y ago

I do believe that the future is mobility services. I don't think it's going to happen soon but I do believe it is going to happen. I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads.

Reason077 10y ago
I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads. I don't think that's going to happen. It might happen on some roads, in order to reduce congestion or whatever, but there's no reason to ban human drivers in general. That's because "autopilots" can run in passive/safety mode, ready to take over and prevent you doing anything really stupid. This is already starting to happen, in fact, with AEB to be installed in all new cars by 2022.