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Re:Tesla prevails in top Massachusetts court over direct sales by bostonpete on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:18PM (#8326502)
I don't think cities are going to be buying self-driving cars like this. What happens when citizens want to leave the city? Or the state? Or country? It makes more sense for a corporation to provide this service.

By and large, people seem to love Uber. If they fall out of favor, I think it would be more natural for competitors to put pressure on them to improve (or supplant them), not city governments.

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Re:Tesla prevails in top Massachusetts court over direct sales by toomuchtodo on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:22PM (#8326527)
> What happens when citizens want to leave the city? Or the state? Or country?

They use the public transit available to them where they move to? Why would self-driving vehicles not be like the postal service, a business but also an essential service?

Just because I left Chicago doesn't mean I get to take the Metra and the CTA with me.

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