We'll all get used to the driver less car of the future I'm sure. And it's sure to come at some point. Congestion and safety will surely lead to automated transportation, although a a cost I'm sure.
I wouldn't mind it at all. Plenty of extra time to relax, read, or whatever the car of the future will allow.
It's a great idea, this driverless car one, though I'm not sure it'll pick up, the experience though desirable, may not be everyone's cup of tea. People want to be in control of where there going on a more personal and physical level. While may people may intially give it a shot to try it out, it might become something that they try out once in a while if they're just to change things a bit, but may not opt for every time, on worldwide basis this might not work as well.
Tad,sounds really great, but why should someone wait for the robor-car if you can take a train and get everything you decribed?( at least in Europe, the trains are fast and comfortable)
Agreed. Thats worth considering; the proportionate billing. Surely, 2.5 $ is not happening. Travellers will be willing to pay much more than that because of the savings on parking costs and depreciation on owned car (cost of the car divided by years divided by days divided by hours) and for the relaxation due to not driving the car.
I am ready to buy your point about efficient usage and paying only on usage basis unlike investment in today's owned car however people don't like paying a handsome sum from their income on taxi and other rental services. Nonetheless the constant increase in parking charges and effort in driving the car will certainly make robocar a cheap and convenient solution. The convenience factor is priceless.
The concepts here remind me of the International Space Station, traveling through space with a docking process for replenishment and other supplies. I'm sure there were many naysayers when someone first dreamed about that. Anything is possible!
Does it even work in New York? Look at all the single points of failure that brought down the entire system, post Sandy! Would independently guided vehicles, organized by computers have helped...heck yeah! How about just pressing a "Get Me Outta Here" button during emergencies that optimally routes people away from disaster, or to the motels that still have rooms open or places where there are shelters. Sure, it wouldn't make good Hollywood...no CGI of miles of cars stuck fleeing Los Angeles (with the inevitable disaster touching down and flipping most of them over anyway)...but it shows that a multi-nodal, multi-route "Personal Transit" system might be more 21st century than just fixed guideway mass transit.
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