It seems a lot cheaper to buy a battery bank than to spend a sizeable fraction of a million dollars for the rest of the AV and the operational costs.

Well, one of them is happening faster than the other, so let’s not perfect be the enemy of good.

Well, nobody’s gonna be able to afford an actual working autonomous vehicle, and it won’t make sense either economically or operationally to privately own one even if they could.

UAV already stands for “unmanned aerial vehicle.” Besides, using both “unmanned” and “autonomous” is redundant. Anyway, the standard abbreviation for autonomous vehicles is AV.

Buggy whip salesmen gonna have to deal with it.

Elimination of personal vehicles would make public transit more attractive; with the previously foregone conclusion that one must own a vehicle gone, the choice is between a few dollars for transit, or several times more than that for a private vehicle. How many people currently choose to take an Uber or Lyft to and from work?

I keep meaning to watch that film

I doubt that we’ll be seeing UAVs for personal transport anytime soon. Terrestrial vehicles are significantly easier to manage.

The main thing that will prevent people from purchasing their own AVs will be availability. Waymo and Zoox, for example, are running services, not selling their multi-hundred-thousand-dollar vehicles to the general public. (I’m not bothering to address Tesla as their autonomy stack is an industry joke.)

Elimination of personal vehicles would make public transit more attractive; with the previously foregone conclusion that one must own a vehicle gone, the choice is between a few dollars for transit, or several times more than that for a private vehicle. How many people currently choose to take an Uber or Lyft to and from work?

Also, trains don’t have curbside service.

Giving everybody a self-driving car completely defeats the purpose. Human-driven cars spend about 23 hours of each day just sitting around. A car that can drive itself doesn’t need to spend any time being parked - it can provide another ride! Liberally assuming a self-driving car would need to spend a full half of its time (12 hours/day) charging or being serviced, that would still mean that replacing all cars with autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic volume by a theoretical limit of 12× (12 hours/day/vehicle vs. 1 hour/day/vehicle).

Just finished rewatching Firefly again about thirty minutes ago

It’s still top-notch

That’s not lazy, that’s just good planning. The last thing you need before a massive move like that is more stress.

That’s not lazy, that’s brilliant

Ah, so that’s why I have them tagged as “fascist simp.”

I can’t wait until we need to add a fourth digit

Nobody would be having any fun.

THIS IS JUST A COMMENT IN CAPITAL LETTERS

No, his name is Dow. DOW doesn’t stand for anything.

Sure, this time I managed to figure it out. Next time they screw up an acronym, somebody else might not.

FYI, DOW doesn’t stand for anything. “Dow” is commonly used to refer to the “Dow Jones Industrial Average.”

Well, maybe six months ago. Or pretty much any time before March.

Well, at least the trash took itself out.