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Re:Will Electric Cars Slow the Adoption of Driverless Cars? by TheCoelacanth on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:14PM (#15942155)
If you rent from Hertz every month, the car is still just sitting in your driveway most of the time, so there is no efficiency increase.

If you Uber everywhere, you need to pay someone else to drive you around all the time, that wipes out any possible cost savings.

Get rid of the cost of the person driving you and it will almost certainly be cheaper to rent than buy unless you have a very high utilization rate for the car.

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Re:Will Electric Cars Slow the Adoption of Driverless Cars? by Spooky23 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:58PM (#15943028)
Youre still replacing me, who isn’t getting paid to drive myself, with a non-free AI.

Add in surge pricing, surcharges for dead-ending routes, etc and you have a cab. Useful, but inferior to controlling the car.

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