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If anything, people will want cars more as they transition from necessity to status symbol.
by dogecoinbase 10y ago
If anything, people will want cars more as they transition from necessity to status symbol.
- sjwright 10y agoWhat planet do you live on? Cars have been a major status symbol for, what, a hundred years now? There's no significant untapped well of car ownership to be found from self-driving cars. But the market for commuter-grade cars will plummet.
- toast0 10y ago> There's no significant untapped well of car ownership to be found from self-driving cars. At what age might you be comfortable letting your child self-drive to school, but not walk alone to school?
- sjwright 10y agoThat doesn't increase the number of cars a family needs, it just automates a previously manual task.
- toast0 10y agoIt doesn't increase the number of vehicles needed, but it may increase the number of vehicles wanted. If a family of four has two kids that attend different schools, and two jobs in different locations, and everything starts at 8 am (because, life); each person can most delay leaving the house if there is one vehicle per person.
- sjwright 10y agoAn incredible edge case, not an untapped market. And how does your hypothetical scenario work today? Right, some people get to arrive a bit earlier.
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