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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > On 14/01/2014 10:57 pm, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > In article , leszek.karlik@gmail.com   
   > > says...   
   > >>   
   > >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:20:24 +0100, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)   
   > >>  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> [...]   
   > >>> 	However, that would not save you much if anything because you'd still   
   > >>> have to maintain all those vehicles.   
   > >>   
   > >> Luckily, electric vehicles are significantly less maintenance-intensive   
   > >> than   
   > >> internal combustion vehicles.   
   > >   
   > > But now you have the issue of the electric vehicles not having any range   
   > > and being slow to recharge, so the strategy of sending them hither and   
   > > beyond picking up and dropping passengers fails.   
   >   
   > As far as I know, all current electric cars will do about 100km before   
   > they need to be recharged. Not many people commute that far by car every   
   > day.   
      
   We are not talking about one person having a car that he uses to commute   
   to work and back.  We are talking about him having a self-driving car   
   that drives him to work, drive itself back home, takes his wife shopping   
   and to the beauty parlor, takes her home, drives back to his office to   
   pick him up and take him home after work, and somewhere along the way   
   takes the kids to soccer.  It's doing a lot of driving around that the   
   single-user commuter car isn't.  And when you expect it to also make you   
   money by carrying passengers for hire . . .   
      
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