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Old 07-07-2017, 07:36 PM   #462
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If you eliminate 99% of car accidents do you need 13 airbags in a car? Do you need as strong of frame or as large of crumple zone. Safety will be paramount but the safety is created by the AI not by trying to make up for human failure. Combined with electric engines you might cut the weight of a car in half. Once the steering wheel is gone the design possibilities are endless.

I can ship myself in my bed car and be in Vegas tomorrow.

I am just disagreeing that car ownership will disappear.
It's hard to imagine car ownership disappearing in our culture. Who knows what will play out, but we can be sure that new business models will emerge that will offer new options to consumers and that is the sweet side of capitalism.
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