XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Robert Bannister   
    wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Maybe not, but the point here (that was snipped) was to use autonomous   
   shared cars that anyone can use, rather than having your own personal   
   car.   
      
   Besides, the problem with electric cars in general is that when you do   
   need more "fuel", you have to wait long periods of time.   
      
   If a normal car is running out of fuel, you simply stop for five   
   minutes at a ptrol station to refuel. If a silly electric car is   
   running out of fuel, you have to plug it in over-night, or at best a   
   "fast recharge" which still takes a lot longer than five minutes. Many   
   people these days can't even be bothered waiting the few extra seconds   
   for their computer to boot (they use "sleep" mode instead), so waiting   
   hours for their car to recharge simply isn't going to work.   
      
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