[netcan]

Douglas Adams on the internet affecting media in the 2000s: ”It's like trying to explain to the Amazon River, the Mississippi, the Congo and the Nile how the coming of the Atlantic Ocean will affect them. The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply.”

Wide-scale fully automated cars will change everything. First, I think fewer people will personally own cars, perhaps a small fraction. Vehicles will need to be less “general purpose,” if they’re not personally owned. One or two seaters, low speed electrics are better/cheaper if you’re getting around a congested city on your own. If we don’t own our own, we don’t always need cars that can fit a family, handle highways…

[arethuza]

As an aside, the Congo and the Amazon used to be the same river before the Atlantic came along...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River#Geology

[knob]

TIL! Thanks!

[bitJericho]

I'm going to buy a car with a bed, and wake up 1000 miles away for weekend vacations :)