Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park

Re:Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park by emiliobumachar on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:55PM (#19057235)

I agree that families with small children have a need for car-as-storage, but that passes after a couple years (per child). I'm not so sure about sports. For hardcore athletes, then yeah. But for your weekly biking or skiing or surfing trip, the equipment can be hauled on and off larger car-as-service's hired for the purpose. The rest of the time, store the equipment in a fraction of the space you would use to store a car with the equipment in.

Disclaimer: I was never a regular in any big-equipment sports.

If I'm wrong, well, like I said owning a car might still be fairly popular when they self-drive.

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Re:Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park by nradov on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:11PM (#19057399)

Any sport that requires an external rack for equipment like bikes, kayaks, or skis is a major hassle with rental vehicles. Sure some rental agencies already offer vehicles with racks but dealing with all the various options and configurations becomes a huge problem for logistics and inventory management. So they often don't have what you want when you actually need it. I'll keep my personally owned vehicles regardless of cost.

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Re:Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park by Consultant32452 on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:11PM (#19057402)

With regards to sporting equipment I was specifically thinking about baseball, but football and hockey can also tend to have lots of equipment.

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