XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Bernard Peek   
    wrote:   
      
   > 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. The car   
   > doesn't have to drive home after delivering you to work it can pick up   
   > one of your cow-orkers   
      
   Geez, so now these self-driveing cars are only for farm workers?!?  ;-)   
      
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   Kids already don't need somene in a car to pick them up from school ...   
   it's called walking and / or a school bus.  ;-)   
      
   "In my day" I used to ...   
      
        Primary (Junior) School: Walk both ways (once or   
                                 twice I used my bike).   
      
        Intermediate (Middle) School: catch a bus to school   
                                      and walk home.   
      
        Secondary (High) School: walk both ways ... although   
                                 we did only live around the   
                                 corner.   
      
   Going to University I took a bus both ways, but then the university was   
   in the city centre, where all the buses, trains, and motorways are   
   funnelled through. If I had gone to one of the other tertiary   
   instiutions elsewhere in the city, then buying my own car would have   
   been the only workable solution.   
      
   Even the years at my first job were travelled to and from by bus, but   
   similarly, that was in offices behind a shopping centre, so buses went   
   through there regularly. Once the company moved to other premisis out   
   in a more rural area, I had to buy a car (and then left soon afterwards   
   to work for myself, which also means having my own car to easily visit   
   customers when needed).   
      
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