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Re:An Open Letter to California Air Resources Board on VW Ch... by paganel on Saturday December 19, 2015 @02:10PM (#10764497)
> In 20 years, most cars (electric or not) will probably be self-driving ones owned and controlled by a centralized ride-sharing service

This is not true. Just to give an example, how do you plan to implement that "centralized ride-sharing service" in a city like Cairo (current population 10+ million)? Sometimes HN users need to get out of their bubble.

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Re:An Open Letter to California Air Resources Board on VW Ch... by mcguire on Saturday December 19, 2015 @02:32PM (#10764560)
Or in a city like Huntsville, AL, with a population of 200,000 and a surprising number of workers who commute from 40 or more miles away?
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Re:An Open Letter to California Air Resources Board on VW Ch... by w1ntermute on Saturday December 19, 2015 @05:58PM (#10765230)
> how do you plan to implement that "centralized ride-sharing service" in a city like Cairo (current population 10+ million)

https://www.uber.com/cities/cairo

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