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Re:Will Electric Cars Slow the Adoption of Driverless Cars? by jessriedel on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:42PM (#15941025)
Yea, I was trying to be extremely conservative with my 5% number, and I think it's much larger due to some of the effects you mention. But I'm a little skeptical time effects are actually larger than mileage ones in total. Do you know a good quantitative argument (even if approximate) for this?
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Re:Will Electric Cars Slow the Adoption of Driverless Cars? by ghaff on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:20PM (#15941319)
I'm arguing that mileage effects are much bigger unless you regularly flip cars when, say, a lease expires.

AAA publishes car ownership cost numbers. But the big challenge of quantifying this in general is that the relatively fixed component is a lot more for someone who gets a new leased vehicle every three years vs. someone who owns a car for 10-15 years and 150K miles.

http://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/driving-cost-per-mile/

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Re:Will Electric Cars Slow the Adoption of Driverless Cars? by jessriedel on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:40PM (#15941481)
Oh, sorry I misread your comment. Yes, I agree that mileage costs are probably larger than time costs.
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