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Originally Posted by Ryland
We've gone from 5,000 miles per year, to 10,000 miles per year to 15,000 miles per year being common, we are not seeing people who drive 20,000 and 30,000 miles per year! do we really need to be wasting that much fuel on personal transportation??? If you can't drive your own car take public transit, I live in a town of 15,000 people and we have public transit and part of that is a few buses that will pick you up at your door if you are elderly or disabled, there is even an online route map allowing you to see where the bus you want to catch is so you don't have to stand outside in the cold waiting for it!
That is what I would like to see, not every single person, no matter their age or ability ridding around in their own personal pod.
We need to find ways to make better uses of our resources, not figure out ways to use them up faster!
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I have mental problems that make me avoid driving as much as possible unless i'm comfortable with the route.
I get extremely nervous driving or in any new unfamiliar situation.
I also have social phobia / agoraphobia ...etc etc .. and this actually makes me avoid the bus, but when that i
do ride the bus, I can certainly agree with Basjoos that the bus systems ( at least here in Austin ) are a
huge waste of time. A trip that would take 15 minutes by car takes at
least 45 minutes - usually more .
And then the bus drops you off 1/2 mile from your home and you have to dash across the highway to get home. ....and you get to sit next to the guys that smell like urine and feces ...
so ...YES !!! looking forward to driverless cars . Now if only they were affordable to poor folk.