LogFAQs > #953919443

For the splitting up between electric and self-driving cars, I will first say context is provided if you KEEP READING. You quoted, "And while you can work on both, splitting the work like that slows down both." However, had you kept reading, the whole thing said, "And while you can work on both, splitting the work like that slows down both. So, if they really want one to come out faster, they would put more effort on one or the other. And it would probably be electric, so it's easier to make electric self-driving cars instead of having to redo them all..." The context is literally there. Next time, maybe read more than one sentence. Because the context maybe in the very next sentence. I'm not quoting anymore. I mean, you're up to 91 quotes. That's a minimum of 13. And my post are long and have substance, so it'll be more for me. Plus, it would take too long to quote each quote... So, for people the can read, it shouldn't be impossible to know what I was talking about. At all...

As for the car ownership, it's dropping for a few reasons. One reason is because there are too many cars and we need less. Though, the studies I found were specific on what changed. It seems like no car households have gone from 8.9% to 9.1%. Only a 0.2% percent increase. But that's full households. It could be different for single people who live in households where cars are already a part of the household. Not to mention, it could be because people are having trouble affording them. Not because they don't want them. And as I showed you above, many people don't seem to even trust the self-driving vehicles. And are getting less trusting as more come out. Plus, that still means 90.9% of households have at least one car (which also goes to show that many people probably rather own their car since that's what many do already). And it took like 40+ years to go down a little over 10%, and this is the first time it's gone up since then, it'll probably be a while before it goes down enough to where it seems like anything has actually changed. I mean, if anything, Uber going to fully self-driving might help more people get cars since it seems like most Americans don't trust self-driving cars. And for good reason... Not to mention in an article I was reading which did talk about why some people (young millenials) didn't like driving, it said that young adults are buying them at a higher rate now than they did 11 years ago: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-young-adults-cars-attitudes-20181106-story.html

From personal experience, I still haven't met a person in real life who said they would actually ride in a self-driving vehicle out of the many I asked. Which fits with all the other surveys they have done. And the reasons are varied for everybody. But there were certain ones I heard more. I don't know the reasons the people who took the survey gave, but they may have been some of the things the people I've asked mentioned. Or things I've mentioned here...

As for owning, we already have taxis, Ubers, Lyfts, buses, etc, but people still drives their own vehicles. It's more convenient for people. No waiting, can pack the night before if going on a trip, can leave stuff in the car, and all kinds of stuff. For example, I use to have to go to the Per Store either on the way to work or during lunch because of my work times and store hours. But I didn't have enough time to bring it home. So, I would put it in my trunk until I got to go home that night. Or how I leave my gym clothes in my car if I want to go to the gym after work. Or bringing a change of clothes if going to a friend's house afterwards.

As for leaving stuff accidentally, it really depends on a few things. Like the method it uses to tell someone, or if it can tell. The two ways I can see it telling the customer is either an alarm sound (could also be something like a beep), or a phone notification. Most people would probably not like any alarm sounds since even a soft beeping could be annoying or loud. Which could cause a problem like waking a baby or something. And phone notifications won't do much if someone's phone died, or they don't check it. Or if the phone is what they left. As for why they might not check it, it might be because the notification keeps going off, even though the reason is they went shopping, so they know stuff is still in the car. And that's IF the car even does actually notify you. That's a big assumption that they will build that into the vehicles. Or that the car will notice. Which brings to light the talk about a possible camera. Which some people may not want watching them the whole time. Many people are fine with their own cameras, but not with a camera going back to some server somewhere else. Which could also cause trouble if some teens use it to go somewhere to have sex. And speaking of doing nasty things in the vehicles, those vehicles will probably be so gross if people were actually constantly using them. They would basically have to be cleaned after every ride. Which really slows down literally everybody that would have to use them. And the only way to solve that is either not cleaning constantly, or more vehicles. Which creates a different problem that we already have. Basically, this idea is a dumb one with way too many flaws. And some of those flaws are actually fixed by having a drivers. Like they could easily clean after rides. And even if they didn't clean after every ride, they might after something gross happened. But most who own the vehicles probably clean it. And a driver could return the phone. They could steal it. But that could also happen in a self-driving service if the next person in the car steals it when they get in. Because AFAIK, I haven't heard about any sensors be placed in the car to warn people about leaving stuff. And that's probably because they aren't worried about that. Maybe because they aren't thinking about making a fully autonomous taxi service yet like the one you described. Or don't care if people leave stuff. It would also suck to have to hook and unhook a baby car seat every time you took the baby anywhere. Most people hook it up in their car. And I'm not actually worried about the babies. While the AI might not notice something you dropped in the car, it would probably tell you a passenger is in the vehicle. And most people wouldn't forget as you would have to program the daycare in the navigation system when ordering. That being said, I don't believe you're the only one who had this ridiculous idea on the site, but it may have been you who mentioned it the last time we talked. It's still as ridiculous as it was last time. I'm pretty sure this won't happen for probably another 50 years, at the earliest. And that if it even works. And with the amount of people against self-driving vehicles, and the amount of people that probably wouldn't want to be filmed, it would be a doomed business venture. Even the people who use Uber might not want the self-driving vehicles, as many of them may be part of the people who don't trust self-driving vehicles... Also, by keeping the cars, it just adds to the problem I mentioned above. There would be too many cars to maintain at once since many people would probably be doing this. And then traffic would slow down drastically due to the insane amount of cars on the road. Making things worse than they are since there would also be many humans drivers, as well...
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