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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   J. Clarke wrote:   
   > In article , bap@shrdlu.com says...   
   > > On 15/01/14 03:35, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > > In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   > > > says...   
   > > >> 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 maint   
   nance-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.   
      
   Except taxis are over-priced and somewhat difficult to find, as are   
   current shared-car systems. Ideally robo-shared-cars would be free (or   
   technically come out of your taxes) and easy to find ... which of   
   course still means needing millions of the things for peak times and   
   basically defeats the entire prupose.    :-)   
      
      
      
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