run-the-joules
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20 years from now NO ONE will buy cars.
False. I'm not giving up private ownership, even if I'm not actually driving the car. Many others feel the same way.
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20 years from now NO ONE will buy cars.
I would normally say the same thing. But I have watched a number of presentations (youtube) and I am no longer convinced. The prediction is that you will have many options for "driverless" cars. One day you need a small car and another day you need a pickup truck and another day you need a SUV. And you can then just select the car you want and it will pick you up. And because there will be so many available you would not need to wait. Maybe even schedule for a particular time of day. I just think things could be different. But until then I will have a private car. I really hope to have my Tesla at some point be the driverless car for me and my family to use at some point for most trips. It sets in my garage most of the time.False. I'm not giving up private ownership, even if I'm not actually driving the car. Many others feel the same way.
I would normally say the same thing. But I have watched a number of presentations (youtube) and I am no longer convinced. The prediction is that you will have many options for "driverless" cars. One day you need a small car and another day you need a pickup truck and another day you need a SUV. And you can then just select the car you want and it will pick you up. And because there will be so many available you would not need to wait. Maybe even schedule for a particular time of day. I just think things could be different. But until then I will have a private car. I really hope to have my Tesla at some point be the driverless car for me and my family to use at some point for most trips. It sets in my garage most of the time.
If it weren't for autopilot (as it is right now, not even what it might be in the future) I wouldn't be a Tesla owner. I have no interest in any daily driver that cannot do what it does for my mental health.
Probably better said that vehicle It'll become a hobby, rather than widely viewed as a necessity.False. I'm not giving up private ownership, even if I'm not actually driving the car. Many others feel the same way.
There will be luddites fighting it, and it'll take a couple generations time for culture to really dig in. But it's coming.
I don't think it's a luddite thing,....
"...I just like the old way things were organized better, I'm used to that."
I highly expect unless you are near home-bound you share use of spaces and items all the time with people, you've just accepted them and don't really think of them that way because that's just the way it was and is.
Never happily. The worst experiences in daily life are invariably the ones where I'm in places with other people. Loud people ruining movies, smelly people in elevators, children on airplanes, etc. I'd rather sit in traffic for 2 hours than take a 30 minute ride on a train or bus full of other people. At work, I grit my teeth and work one day per week in the shared office space because it's good for my department to be viewed as "part of the team" but if it weren't for that I'd happily come in via a difference entrance and only see my specific team on a daily basis.
it's not that i don't like people, I just know that the less time I spend around them the less likely I am to be frustrated by it. One of the reasons I go grocery shopping at around 11pm usually, unless I need something from the butcher or somewhere else that isn't open that late.
You realize that's pretty far on the scale, multiple deviations from the norm?
But you are still using the same streets. Occasionally a restaurant? Even if it is a non-busy one, so there aren't people, you're borrowing the chair & table, etc.
One of my sons is not unlike that in ways. Even in a busy school cafeteria he would have a table to himself. Outside of immediate family he is VERY on edge if someone is sitting at the same table while he's eating. We knew from a very early age he had a lot of potential for these things to be an issue, so were very active in pushing out the envelope of his world with public bathrooms and such. Public washrooms can be a huge limiter and serious health concern, too. ((It's a big thing for transexuals in areas where they have poor acceptance.))
Restaurants are fine, that's a thing that's always going to be loud and it's just part of the reality so I just try and make it worthwhile. I don't have the financial standing to rent out a restaurant to myself when I want to eat dinner somewhere besides my house, sadly.
It's not a phobia or anything really in the same vein, I just have a very low tolerance for frustration and I'm acutely aware of it, so I just try to avoid situations that'll frustrate me. If i have to do something like go to a party or whatever I will be charming and nice to talk to and so forth, but I'll be plotting my escape the whole time
So TACC, without intervention, can follow the vehicle in front, whether it stops and resumes travel?
Most cars will need the resume button pressed.