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Re:Automakers Prepare for an America That’s Over the Whole C... by Gargoyle on Sunday December 25, 2016 @11:08PM (#13256878)
No, you'd rent a car is what would happen in reality. Same way as the vast majority of people who visit Zion. I went to many remote areas in the western US before I moved from the east coast, and it was often in rental cars (and not once in the personal car I owned, which remained on the east coast.)

This just isn't the obstacle you're making it out to be.

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Re:Automakers Prepare for an America That’s Over the Whole C... by Kadin on Monday December 26, 2016 @01:12AM (#13257212)
I can totally understand doing this with a rental car, but upthread, the idea of not having a driver's license at all was being put forward in a positive light. So that means no renting a car. Without the ability to drive, you'd have to not just rent a car, but rent a driver as well; that's like an order of magnitude difference in price.

Rental cars are already a great alternative to private car ownership in a great many situations, basically any one where you don't need a car where you live most of the time, and just need one for travel/vacation/etc. purposes.

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