Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee
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I read some CEO of a company I can't remember that buying cars will stop in 5 years. Not only is that unrealistic, but outrageous. It's the "flyover nation" syndrome with that kind of thinking. Where I live not only do I see a need for a car, but I have a need for a 2nd car (well, a truck) and many people have more than 2. It's simply not realistic in rural areas.
Plus...people LOVE their cars!! That will not go away for a long, long time. If not ever.
Edit: Found the article http://www.businessinsider.com/former-tesla-vp-georg-bauer-autonomy-will-kill-car-ownership-2016-11
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There is no way I could live without a car and a bigger vehicle for hauling stuff where I live. We also live in a rural area and there is NO public transportation at all here.
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@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
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The argument I'm trying to make here is that car ownership (much like home ownership) cost more people way more than just renting (hiring a taxi of sorts) for when you actually need the transportation.
Think of how much time you spend in a car (and what the car cost). Most of the world doesn't need to own, they just need transportation on demand.
Which if all cars were smart cars (and taxi in essence) you'd tap on your phone and have a car at your door in a matter of a few minutes.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
But that isn't the goal of driver-less cars. There will always be hobbyist. People who build or customize a car. And it will disappear eventually as people realize that buying a car, new or used is not the smart choice.
Sure you may purchase a used driver-less car to customize, but why? Make the "taxi" company deal with maintaining it. Imagine if you could hire a ferrari for $100/day?
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Hobbyist guys will never not own cars. Some of these guys have $100K into customizing a 50 year old plus car. So it has nothing to do with $$
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
But that isn't the goal of driver-less cars. There will always be hobbyist. People who build or customize a car. And it will disappear eventually as people realize that buying a car, new or used is not the smart choice.
Sure you may purchase a used driver-less car to customize, but why? Make the "taxi" company deal with maintaining it. Imagine if you could hire a ferrari for $100/day?
I guess I see it different from you. Not only are there "hobbyists", but there are people who love the freedom of a car. There's really nothing like jumping in whenever you want. And it's YOUR car, not some company's car. I don't even want to get into how bad these cars would be abused because people don't own them (see rentals).
A Ferrari wouldn't work for me here...at least today. Plus at $100 a day needing to get to work would run me $500 a week and some days $600 a week. I'm in IT brother!! I can't afford that!! LOL
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
And it would be a on-demand hire, not a lease. Just like you'd hire a taxi if you needed one. Never buy a vehicle again, the car makers build and hire them out.
What do you need, a truck, how big, ok it'll be there in 5 minutes.
And @Minion-Queen answered it, there will be hobbyist, people who want to tinker and customize. I'm sure it'll happen, but at far lower levels than today.
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That's just it there isn't even a taxi option here where I live. We just don't have them period. There are lots of areas of the country where they don't. So there would be need to be a huge change in how people think and work from the current thinking.
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
But that isn't the goal of driver-less cars. There will always be hobbyist. People who build or customize a car. And it will disappear eventually as people realize that buying a car, new or used is not the smart choice.
Sure you may purchase a used driver-less car to customize, but why? Make the "taxi" company deal with maintaining it. Imagine if you could hire a ferrari for $100/day?
I guess I see it different from you. Not only are there "hobbyists", but there are people who love the freedom of a car. There's really nothing like jumping in whenever you want. And it's YOUR car, not some company's car. I don't even want to get into how bad these cars would be abused because people don't own them (see rentals).
A Ferrari wouldn't work for me here...at least today. Plus at $100 a day needing to get to work would run me $500 a week and some days $600 a week. I'm in IT brother!! I can't afford that!! LOL
The Ferrari example was a bit tongue in cheek in that if you wanted something fun, you'd hire the "limo" (if you get my point)
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@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
Agree here. Where I live I have to literally take my trash to the transfer station. Something simple and dumb like that would be an issue for a "taxi" service.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
Agree here. Where I live I have to literally take my trash to the transfer station. Something simple and dumb like that would be an issue for a "taxi" service.
Right here too. Lot of people around us also haul water for their wells when they get dry in the summer.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
But that isn't the goal of driver-less cars. There will always be hobbyist. People who build or customize a car. And it will disappear eventually as people realize that buying a car, new or used is not the smart choice.
Sure you may purchase a used driver-less car to customize, but why? Make the "taxi" company deal with maintaining it. Imagine if you could hire a ferrari for $100/day?
I guess I see it different from you. Not only are there "hobbyists", but there are people who love the freedom of a car. There's really nothing like jumping in whenever you want. And it's YOUR car, not some company's car. I don't even want to get into how bad these cars would be abused because people don't own them (see rentals).
A Ferrari wouldn't work for me here...at least today. Plus at $100 a day needing to get to work would run me $500 a week and some days $600 a week. I'm in IT brother!! I can't afford that!! LOL
The Ferrari example was a bit tongue in cheek in that if you wanted something fun, you'd hire the "limo" (if you get my point)
I got your point.
I can do that one for a onsies or twosies a year, but NEVER for everyday.
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@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
That's just it there isn't even a taxi option here where I live. We just don't have them period. There are lots of areas of the country where they don't. So there would be need to be a huge change in how people think and work from the current thinking.
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
But why do you think that people would need to change? Tesla (and other companies) would just put these vehicles on the road in mass, and have them within a few minutes of everywhere.
And why do you think farmers need to have their own vehicles? Why not just rent a vehicle constantly, and if the vehicles senses an issue that needs maintenance it orders a replacement vehicle and drives back to be repaired?
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
Agree here. Where I live I have to literally take my trash to the transfer station. Something simple and dumb like that would be an issue for a "taxi" service.
But again, why do you think that? A self driving vacuum dump truck could drive around everywhere and collect that. You'd never have to leave home.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
That's just it there isn't even a taxi option here where I live. We just don't have them period. There are lots of areas of the country where they don't. So there would be need to be a huge change in how people think and work from the current thinking.
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
But why do you think that people would need to change? Tesla (and other companies) would just put these vehicles on the road in mass, and have them within a few minutes of everywhere.
And why do you think farmers need to have their own vehicles? Why not just rent a vehicle constantly, and if the vehicles senses an issue that needs maintenance it orders a replacement vehicle and drives back to be repaired?
Some of the farm equipment is customized depending on the application. Even a simple pickup truck. Some days you're going to throw the plow on it. Other days your towing. Other days maybe something else I'm not thinking about.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
Agree here. Where I live I have to literally take my trash to the transfer station. Something simple and dumb like that would be an issue for a "taxi" service.
But again, why do you think that? A self driving vacuum dump truck could drive around everywhere and collect that. You'd never have to leave home.
So, a car for me to get to work, now a truck so I can get around on snowy days and times when I am working on my yard. NOW I need a dump truck for the garbage? Sounds expensive and impracticable.
I do get it...inner cities, this may work. Get outside the city and the idea collapses.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
That's just it there isn't even a taxi option here where I live. We just don't have them period. There are lots of areas of the country where they don't. So there would be need to be a huge change in how people think and work from the current thinking.
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
But why do you think that people would need to change? Tesla (and other companies) would just put these vehicles on the road in mass, and have them within a few minutes of everywhere.
And why do you think farmers need to have their own vehicles? Why not just rent a vehicle constantly, and if the vehicles senses an issue that needs maintenance it orders a replacement vehicle and drives back to be repaired?
Some of the farm equipment is customized depending on the application. Even a simple pickup truck. Some days you're going to throw the plow on it. Other days your towing. Other days maybe something else I'm not thinking about.
And again, self driving vehicles already could do this. Most farms already have full autonomous equipment. What makes plowing so difficult that it couldn't be automated?
What makes the idea of "I need a truck to move some lumber" difficult? A truck would pull up, you'd tell it whereabouts on the property to go, and it'd drive there.
You'd load up whatever, and tell it where to go next.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
Also Farm country.... farmers have to have their own vehicles.
Agree here. Where I live I have to literally take my trash to the transfer station. Something simple and dumb like that would be an issue for a "taxi" service.
But again, why do you think that? A self driving vacuum dump truck could drive around everywhere and collect that. You'd never have to leave home.
So, a car for me to get to work, now a truck so I can get around on snowy days and times when I am working on my yard. NOW I need a dump truck for the garbage? Sounds expensive and impracticable.
I do get it...inner cities, this may work. Get outside the city and the idea collapses.
Not at massive scales it doesn't. Where you literally put a vehicle in every area to cover the needs. You essentially do this now, except you are expending your time in driving to plow, drop off the trash etc.
