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Old 04-02-2019, 20:19   #16
RichardCoulter
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Re: Charge your cars on VMs Network

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Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
Hey, me too!

I think fully-autonomous self-driving cars are a ways off but as pointed out, there's a lot of legal gubbins to sort out with regards to safety and whether or not a qualified legal "driver" needs to be present. They are designing cars without steering wheels so it's definitely on someone's radar, but it remains to be seen how regulation turns out.

All that being said, I suspect self-driving cars will be more like subscription taxi services than a vehicle you just buy outright.
Yes, i've read that it's expected that car ownership will plummet and that people will simply call for one when they need one. At present, most cars are sat doing nothing for the vast majority of the time, so it makes sense.
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