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by neogodless
1907 days ago
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> In 3 to 5 years we should see autonomous vehicles I've heard this before... ah yes. Five years ago[0]. Now, I'm not saying this won't happen. But predicting timelines on something that does not yet exist is tricky. More to your point though... right now a lot of people value having "their" car despite all the drawbacks you listed. It can certainly vary (i.e. city vs suburbs vs rural) but people like just leaving stuff in their car, hopping in it the moment they are ready to leave, rather than trying to gather their kids, stuff, pets, etc. while waiting an unpredictable time for a summoned vehicle to arrive, and then going through the loading process, and then making sure nothing gets left behind. I think it's possible we'll see a divergence, where people that begrudgingly own a car today will happily move into the future you envision, but quite a large portion of car owners will still want to own cars pretty far into the future. [0] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2016/04/29/... |
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The first are car enthusiasts. They like the cars Tesla is producing.
The second are robotaxi/FSD evangelists. They want Tesla to spearhead the movement of ultimately eliminating (or significantly reducing) car ownership in favor of the robotaxi network. In fact, some of them even want Tesla to stop selling cars to the general public in favor of retaining them for the robotaxi fleet.