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Much as I want to agree, I think this article buries the real question. Yes, we will have the technology - but will people's behaviour change as quickly as the
by ruytlm 9y ago
Much as I want to agree, I think this article buries the real question. Yes, we will have the technology - but will people's behaviour change as quickly as the article suggests?
Will whoever wins the ride-sharing market actually provide rates that low to the passengers? Or will they become the new oil barons, gouging the market?
What about the car as more than just point A to point B transport? How many people use a car as a secondary base of operations, and would still need 'their' car, with all their things in it, not just 'a' car, to get from A to B?
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThat latter point is something I think very few people in urban living situations understand. My car is, if I am to misappropriate a term, a 'safe space'. It's like an offshoot of my house I bring with me elsewhere. If there's something I don't carry on my person regularly, but might need, it's probably in my car. My car is a space that I own, that I control, and of course, can lock myself inside. And my car instantly affords me the ability to move myself away from where I am, and to something else. My comfort level is based in part on either being in walking distance to my house or to my car.
- King-Aaron 9y agoNot to mention people who use their vehicles as a hobby - be it in motorsport, vintage restoration, or whatever. Electric cars and Automation will do the same to conventional cars as the automobile did to horses. Cars didn't bring on the horsepocalypse, it just created a new enthusiast industry around them as opposed to being a mainstream transport industry.
- zapperdapper 9y agoI'm not so sure. I think when people figure out how much money they are going to save by switching to an EV you could see a rapid uptake.