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Originally Posted by polak
Can't see how it would be all that cheaper than rental cars for long distance now?
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It's like leasing a car but also similar to rental of car. Choose what you want for the contract period, borrow a different one if you want. It would be a completely different experience than we have now with cars.
There's no way a self driving hive mind of pods aren't electric. "Fuel" wouldn't be that great of a cost (assuming renewable energy). Vehicles would also be mass produced. Economies of scale could mean cheaper car. Also, shipping. On a network, a produced car just drives and charges on that network on its own rather than as much storing and semis with 18 cars on them. Shipping prices could dramatically fall.
For long distance, I could imagine you swap vehicles every few cities/towns for a vehicle that isn't out of power.