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Re:Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City by antisthenes on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:43AM (#29104129)
It will happen slowly, through raising the price of individual vehicles (you can already see the trend with electric vehicles - there are almost no affordable sub $30k cars), raising the price of insuring a human-driven vehicle, etc.

It won't happen overnight, and probably take anywhere between 30-50 years, but it's definitely possible in the long term.

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Re:Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City by rsj_hn on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:46AM (#29104137)
The problem with that theory is that auto manufacturers face declining average costs and so are incentivized to produce more cars and sell them for a lower unit price.

This is why the only source of auto inflation is by adding more features to the car. I don't see any reason why this would change in the future.

For EVs, wait until cheap Chinese EVs flood the US market.

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