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Old 05-31-2014, 02:24 PM   #12
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Self driving cars cannot come soon enough. Cars are too big, too heavy, and thus too dangerous for the average person to drive in such a crowded area such as city streets.

I can't wait until the day when no one owns their own car. There is no need. For most people they only are actually using their car at most 2 hours of every day. The rest of the time it sits in your garage or a parking lot.

It will be like a taxi that picks you up almost instantly and drops you off at the door of where you need to go. Need to keep your things in it for a time period then let it know that and it won't go pick someone else up and wait nearby for you.
Exactly, like self driving Car2Go's, self driving taxis, and self driving public transit van pooling that can pick up a bunch of people that have a very similar origin and similar destination. Public transit without fixed routes!

Even self driving delivery vehicles. Order groceries on a website, robots pick it out of a warehouse, puts them in a self driving taxi, and the taxi brings them to your house on a route with a bunch of others. Tons of drivers running errands taken off the road.

Can't happen soon enough.
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