Remember united beaks guitars ? Think about United breaks macbooks. not to mention the infosec people at many companies melting down over executives lousing control over there laptops for that long ext.
I am looking forward to a day when I no longer need to own a car. I only put about 5000 miles a year on the one I have. unfortunately public transport option between my home and office are a non stater but 95% of the store i use are within 5 miles and i would say 70% are within walking distance. The day where I can pay a monthly or year plan for X number of miles or something and have a robo cab at my beckon call with in a few mins of calling it on my smartphone is the day I will sell my car and never look back (assuming its cost effective) There are little issues. To work out like the car will need to gas up possibly more then once a day if its running 24/7 the car provider will have to work out deals for gas stations to pump gas into empty cars the drive up or have some sort of credit system for passengers who have to fill up the car because it ran low during their fare. Most likely a car service with no manual controls will have to have some sort of support center where if the car gets into an environment (say complex road work) that a remote human support person say in VR gear can take control and drive the car remotely till its clear and then warn other robo cabs to avoid area if possible.
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The whole east Texas crap has been the bane of the tech industry for decades.
Remember united beaks guitars ? Think about United breaks macbooks. not to mention the infosec people at many companies melting down over executives lousing control over there laptops for that long ext.
I am looking forward to a day when I no longer need to own a car. I only put about 5000 miles a year on the one I have. unfortunately public transport option between my home and office are a non stater but 95% of the store i use are within 5 miles and i would say 70% are within walking distance. The day where I can pay a monthly or year plan for X number of miles or something and have a robo cab at my beckon call with in a few mins of calling it on my smartphone is the day I will sell my car and never look back (assuming its cost effective) There are little issues. To work out like the car will need to gas up possibly more then once a day if its running 24/7 the car provider will have to work out deals for gas stations to pump gas into empty cars the drive up or have some sort of credit system for passengers who have to fill up the car because it ran low during their fare. Most likely a car service with no manual controls will have to have some sort of support center where if the car gets into an environment (say complex road work) that a remote human support person say in VR gear can take control and drive the car remotely till its clear and then warn other robo cabs to avoid area if possible.