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| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
They can also turn your steering wheel, floor the gas pedal, and disable the brakes, all OTA... :scared: |
| BravoV:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on February 10, 2020, 09:05:21 am ---They can also turn your steering wheel, floor the gas pedal, and disable the brakes, all OTA... :scared: --- End quote --- Do you mean, turning your car into weapon ? Especially the car has advanced AI that can recognize vital and valuable military targets/objects, and of course where they're located. >:D |
| grumpydoc:
--- Quote from: Brent88 on February 09, 2020, 01:07:51 am ---i rather not have to pay a 3rd party it's still WAY efficient time wise to have your own and ownership cost less... every 10,000 miles in a uber would cost about $30,000 it cost me about $2800 including,maintenance,fuel,insurance and reg.. owning a car is still cheaper :-// --- End quote --- You are assuming that the cost would be similar to modern day Uber - where most of the cost is paying the driver, rather than the actual cost of the journey. Also you are forgetting depreciation - and 28c a mile seems low for running costs TBH, though some of that might be that you guys still pay a ludicrously low price for gas. Finally fewer and fewer people actually own cars anyway, financing has moved towards contract hire deals where you never own the vehicle - offer pay-by-ride at the right price and people will see the benefit of not having to give a car house room, feed it with fuel and/or electricity, get it serviced regularly, find a parking space at each end of the journey etc etc. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: eti on February 09, 2020, 10:50:21 pm ---Only a showoff or a mug buys Tesla. Virtue signalling is at its peak right now, no one is content unless you're vegan and driving an electric car. Sheesh. Idiocy has also peaked. --- End quote --- I guess it escaped your notice that Teslas are some of the very fastest street-legal cars in existence (as in acceleration, not maximum speed)? Lots of people buy them because they’re fun to drive, even if they could afford a more expensive (but poorer performing) brand of car. For some people, there are factors in buying a car that aren’t economy, virtue signaling,vanity, etc. Performance, quality, comfort, utility, and personal aesthetic preferences are just some. Nobody cares about all aspects, and not everyone will assign the same importance to different factors as you do. Me, I have never been the kind of person to show off through my car. But I understand that others do, and that’s OK! |
| Bud:
--- Quote from: grumpydoc on February 10, 2020, 01:14:27 pm ---Finally fewer and fewer people actually own cars anyway --- End quote --- I did not notice that.... Each house in my neighbourhood has cars parked on the driveways, some have 2 and some have 3. My closest neighbours are a family of 4 adults, they have 4 cars. As to me i do not see myself calling Uber every time i need to go buy some grocceries . It is the freedom to move which people like and want. |
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