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I wonder what kind of bubble tech bros and the people running these companies live in. Ten years to transition? Try twenty at least. Most people still buy seco
by rejor121 5y ago
I wonder what kind of bubble tech bros and the people running these companies live in.
Ten years to transition? Try twenty at least. Most people still buy second hand vehicles and those are still gonna be gas. Think about the motorcycles too, and the pedestrians, and the cyclists.
Adoption will be much slower due to costs, safety concerns and privacy.
It would be better to just spend the money on better infrastructure and public transport, but that’s a pipe dream in the States at least.
- eightysixfour 5y agoI moved to live in a more walkable, less car dependent city. I care about us improving transit infrastructure, but the idea that American cities will significantly divest from their existing car-centric infrastructure is just wrong. We’ve already invested in that infrastructure and it is incredibly expensive to replace. I think the replacement of manually driven vehicles will be decently rapid - the bottom 1/3rd of drivers cause a large percentage of motor vehicle accidents, as soon as they’re better than that group I think the financial incentives (like insurance) will dramatically change and it will be cheaper to ride in someone else’s self driving car than to own your own older vehicle. Guess we will see.
- frakkingcylons 5y agoIf legit self-driving capabilities became available, I feel pretty confident in saying that there's a sizeable consumer market for this that are not sensitive to the price. I would immediately drop an extra 30-40% on a car if that's what it cost to get that self-driving. For those that are more price-sensitive, well, new cars become used cars in a relatively short amount of time.