Think Ford might die now? Oh people's short memories.

[Semi]

On 6/27/2022 at 1:22 AM, Waldo said:

 

There's no point in building cars for Uber drivers.  In 5-10 years automated vehicles will replace uber drivers in all major urban areas.  Fully electric cars will whiz around on their own, picking people up and dropping them off, then meandering over to a charge station when they need to.

In 00's scientists thought that people will live in cities covered with dome from glass and drive flying machines) I think 5-10 years is very small period for this.

[Sky14FFH]

15 hours ago, Semi said:

In 00's scientists thought that people will live in cities covered with dome from glass and drive flying machines) I think 5-10 years is very small period for this.

Suffer fools gladly. There area couple on this site. 
 

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Fully electric cars will whiz around on their own, picking people up and dropping them off,

They've had these for 150 years, they are called TRAINS and TRAMS.  You should visit say Austria sometime.  It will look like the World of Tomorrow to you uninitiated.

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then meandering over to a charge station when they need to.

Ridiculously inefficient, cluttering the roads and unnecessarily dangerous.  Autonomous cars are NOT going to happen.  I got stuck behind one in Ann Arbor once where they were testing them and it struggled to go over 15mph. It was truly irritating. Sure sure they can improve but here's the thing.  Who gets sued in an accident, the driver or the car maker.  The car maker of course and automobile manufacturers don't want that liability.