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trof

(54,274 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 06:44 PM Oct 2015

Life after human operated automobiles are obsolete. [View all]

Insurance premiums for owner operated vehicles will be prohibitive.
Traffic related deaths and injuries will plummet.

City life: Uber on steroids.

Suburban life:
You'll schedule a daily commute for the week with 'RoboCar'.
To and from work.
Time spent commuting will be credited as 'work time' since you'll be able to do your job or conduct business while enroute to your job.
If you still have to physically BE at an office.

Same for kids to school if a RoboSchoolBus doesn't serve your school district.
Teaching/learning will begin as soon as your kid boards the bus or the RoboCar.

Anywhere you need to go...shopping, medical appointments, visit friends, a night out, whatever...transportation is just a phone call/text/IM/app/email away.

Bars will see a huge increase in profits. RoboCar is the Designated Driver.

Taking a flight? You'll be pre-screened by your RoboCar ride.
No TSA.
And RoboCar entered your digital boarding pass into the system.
Just walk out to your departure gate and board.
Remember how it used to be?

What will this cost?
MUCH less than you now pay for a car, insurance, maintenance, tires, etc., etc.

Feel free to add your own ideas.
These are just a few.



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What will this cost? Fumesucker Oct 2015 #1
There will NEVER be robocars where I live. longship Oct 2015 #2
Yes, they will. MindPilot Oct 2015 #22
Girls Crash into Lake Following Bad GPS Directions KittyWampus Oct 2015 #28
Who said anything about GPS? MindPilot Oct 2015 #32
Several issues Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #35
Five years? longship Oct 2015 #30
That is my guess. I work where some of this stuff is being developed. MindPilot Oct 2015 #33
Pshaw! How silly. longship Oct 2015 #36
No TSA? lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #3
I think auto parking will be cool. Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #4
You will no longer own a car. trof Oct 2015 #6
Im not so sure of that Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #13
You won't have to wait. trof Oct 2015 #14
I don't have to wait now as it is. Throd Oct 2015 #15
The Royal Ahold Group (I call them royal a-holes, but that's a different post..!) that runs GIANT MADem Oct 2015 #40
No more driveways, garages, or parking lots. KamaAina Oct 2015 #5
Garages will become game rooms, workshops, whatever. trof Oct 2015 #8
Or in San Francisco, studio apartments. KamaAina Oct 2015 #11
I actually find driving my old car to be quite enjoyable. Throd Oct 2015 #7
I prefer 'freeing'. trof Oct 2015 #10
If you want to crawl inside a robot, knock yourself out. I prefer the freedom of driving the car my Throd Oct 2015 #12
This will become a hobby, and a very expensive one. trof Oct 2015 #16
Trust me, it already is an expensive hobby. Throd Oct 2015 #26
especially with the bunch of drunk folk Skittles Oct 2015 #20
"this will cost less" Skittles Oct 2015 #9
I will guarantee it will be cheaper than owner/operators. trof Oct 2015 #18
I remember when they said banking would be cheaper without tellers Skittles Oct 2015 #19
I remember "electricity too cheap to meter" MindPilot Oct 2015 #24
I've never been a big fan of driving Skittles Oct 2015 #25
OK, and nuclear power. trof Oct 2015 #29
Agreed, it time to accept the private automobile IS mass transit. MindPilot Oct 2015 #17
That's the path we've chosen in the U.S. trof Oct 2015 #21
Personal opinion only, but to me that sounds like a vision of hell. =( Shandris Oct 2015 #23
When I was a kid I was hoping the automobile age would be over by now. hunter Oct 2015 #27
Yes. The European Model. trof Oct 2015 #31
I've lived in places like that. hunter Oct 2015 #37
yes we will customise our robots olddots Oct 2015 #34
Gonna be tough going rock crawling using a self driving ORV ileus Oct 2015 #38
Hopefully after I am dead. Nt hack89 Oct 2015 #39
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