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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by mattferderer on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:40PM (#17897555)
The earliest electric cars I noticed on the streets were glorified golf carts. They were ideal for very short distances, like getting to work & running errands.

Couldn't self driving cars in the very near future follow this same path? Find a very densely populated area. Get self driving cars to work very well in that area for short trips. Slowly expand to similar areas?

I haven't followed either of these very closely, so please correct me where I'm wrong.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by adrianN on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:00PM (#17898109)
That's kind of where self driving busses go. The first prototypes run short routes on aiports or something like that. But I don't think that short routes on normal streets are significantly easier than long routes on normal streets.
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