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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:47:20 +0100, Robert Carnegie   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 15/10/2025 17:16, Paul S Person wrote:   
      
       
      
   >> This sort of thing does /not/ inspire me to resume driving. No matter   
   >> how weird the alternatives get.   
   >   
   >A car that does the driving for you?   
      
   Not if it spends any time at all updating itself while in traffic and   
   having no control at all over the vehicle during that time.   
      
   >I don't know if any are also offering to go off   
   >afterwards to park or recharge themselves.   
   >Though I suppose that the current autonomous   
   >taxis in some cities must be doing something   
   >like that?   
      
   Taxis I don't know about. The electic bikes/scooters are, AFAIK,   
   serviced by trucks that drive about and service them (or maybe haul   
   them to a central point for servicing, leaving serviced ones behind in   
   their place).    
      
   Taxis, however, /could/ do that. The problem is, what happens when   
   they do this in the middle of a paying trip? Does the passenger have   
   to divert to the depot and wait for the charging to finish?   
      
   >Then again, I couldn't find out what vehicles   
   >run on in the future Mega-City of "Judge Dredd" -   
   >they could be powered from the road - but with   
   >a shortage of apartments (at least perhaps until   
   >a series of catasrophes reduces the population   
   >cumulatively?), they just live in their vehicle.   
   >And with not enough parking space either - these   
   >are literal mobile homes.   
   >   
   >Unless I imagined this.  Somebody did.   
   >   
   >They may have been called mo-pads?   
      
   IIRC, we only see the lower-class living accomodations. People wealthy   
   enough to afford a vehicle probably have better accomodations.   
      
   And the Outland (IIRC) is always ready to receive brave new pioneers.   
   And eat them.   
      
   OTOH, we already have (and have had for some time now) people living   
   in vehicles. No reason that tradition could not continue into the   
   future.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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