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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars by dougbarrett on Saturday September 10, 2016 @11:49AM (#12469702)
I know me and a lot of other parents with young kids probably wouldn't go with this. Our cars are stocked with a diaper bag, stroller, some books, a few car-friendly toys and a stroller. If I had to haul all that in the house everyday, it'd be a pain in the ass. If the car never 'parked', that'd be a pain in the ass because I'd be hauling it into wherever we'd go...if I was shopping I'd need a shopping cart just for that stuff. Then when our 2nd kid comes around and I have to work but my tiny wife had to haul our two boys around, there's no way that'd be possible.

Autonomous cars may be the future, but it'll be decades before not owning a car really takes off. Maybe for single people or couples without kids it will be possible, or those times you don't have the kids, but for the rest of us it's just not feasible.

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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars by astrodust on Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:27PM (#12476233)
There are parents that don't own cars. Shocker, I'm sure, for some families. They get by with things like strollers, or child-carrying bicycles with ample storage space.

The amount of junk you carry seems to scale in proportion to the convenient carrying capacity of your transportation. If you have a huge SUV of course it will be packed with all kinds of stuff. If all you have is a stroller you'll scale back accordingly.

"There's no way that'd be possible" is utter defeatism. Somehow as a species we survived for tens of thousands of years before cars. I doubt autonomous cars won't be embraced by millions just because you personally find them inconvenient.

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