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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article ,   
   ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com says...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  "J. Clarke"  wrote:   
   >   
   > > How?  If I need to be at my job and my wife needs to be at her job, in   
   > > opposite directions, how does a chauffeured vehicle address that other   
   > > than by having one of us arrive at the office very early?   
   >   
   > If there are three self-driving cars shared among three families and you   
   > don't have four people in those families who all go to work at the same   
   > time, both you and your wife get to work on time, even though there is   
   > only one car per family, not two. The less correlation there is among   
   > times a car is needed, the lower the ratio of cars to people that's   
   > workable.   
      
   And if you do have six people in those three families who all need to be   
   at work in the morning, then what?   
      
   Oh, and who pays for the gas and wear-and-tear for these self-driving   
   cars to drive all over Hell's half-acre repositioning themselves?   
      
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