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Re:Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016 by edaemon on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @09:40PM (#14511256)
I think people like their privacy too much for that, as efficient as it may be. It seems more likely to me that private (or public single-occupant) autonomous cars will become smaller. Something like a Smart car size autonomous EV -- small enough to minimize costs, large enough to be useful for the single rider.
Re:Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016 by awjr on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:22AM (#14512953)
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport — paraphrased from Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia

http://newyork.thecityatlas.org/lifestyle/developed-area-ric...

I think privacy is something that is a function of cost benefit. When road pricing becomes ubiquitous (as it will given the march towards EV), people will begin shift to public transport.

Re:Electric vehicles reached 2M cars in 2016 by tonyedgecombe on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:46AM (#14513015)
Perhaps the solution for Americans will need to be different to that of the rest of the world.