XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: bap@shrdlu.com   
      
   On 16/01/14 17:33, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > In article , bap@shrdlu.com says...   
   >>   
   >> On 15/01/14 03:35, J. Clarke wrote:   
   >>> 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 . . .   
   >>   
   >> That's what you are talking about, the rest of us aren't.   
   >   
   > Speak for yourself.   
   >   
   >> The car   
   >> doesn't have to drive home after delivering you to work it can pick up   
   >> one of your cow-orkers who needs to visit another site or go to the   
   >> airport. Meanwhile your wife gets a different vehicle to take her to the   
   >> beauty parlor. The kids don't need a person to pick them up from school,   
   >> they have a car available to do that.   
   >   
   > In other words you are advocating abandoning the private car and just   
   > having everybody use robotaxis for everthing.  If that model were viable   
   > everybody would already be using regular taxis for everything.   
      
   No, because we don't have driverless taxis. The current model requires   
   you to hire not only a taxi but a very expensive driver too.   
      
      
      
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