XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/13/14 11:19 PM, David Friedman wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
      
   	Currently there are more cars than there are licensed drivers, so if   
   ALL the cars were automated, you'd never have a problem.   
      
   	However, that would not save you much if anything because you'd still   
   have to maintain all those vehicles.   
      
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