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The Last Auto Mechanic
- DrScump 9y ago1) "within 15 years virtually all vehicular traffic in the US will be by autonomous electric vehicles" This will be unfortunate news for the major auto manufacturers, who are designing their next-generation ICE-driven platforms that won't even hit the road until 5 years out and have 7-plus year manufacturing tenures. 2) "An EV? (motor will last) At least 500,000, maybe as much as 1,000,000." The manufacturers don't have as much faith as this writer. The Ford Focus Electric, for example, is warrantied for only 36,000 miles. 3) "with so many fewer parts it’s relatively easy to make an electric car drive themselves" For those actually doing the implementations: is autonomous driving "easy" just because the drivetrain is electric rather than ICE?