just hopping in a taxi.
The taxi will be self driven. You will call for it in your phone, and get different rate quotes for speed of arrival. Taxis might then even reach rural areas and replace cars. I can see myself booking a car for 10am to town using Alexa. Boy that will be a confusing world though when I have dementia!
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looked it up, thanks
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/self-driving-car-levels-sae-nhtsa/ Actually once I started using the right search phrases, I see 2021 is planned as a big year for Ford as you say. They seem to be targeting fleets and Cat 4 first. I think Google is going for cat 5 to the public. Not found an predictions, but I think they have been at this for longer with more cash.
this is an interesting article, talking about the finance side. As everything seems to be disruptive to the economy, this will too:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/the-future-of-car-ownership-that-no-one-is-talking-about/Then digging further, it seems Tesla and google are taking completely different approaches:
https://electrek.co/2016/04/11/google-self-driving-car-tesla-autopilot/Tesla claiming 47 million miles of data.... while google claims "only" 2 million miles.
86 percent of new car sales in the U.S. are financed. Without individual financing products, car sales don’t happen. Financing props up the entire auto industry. In fact, the U.S. is far more reliant on auto finance than other countries. In China, where current new car sales outpace the U.S., only 26 percent of new car sales are financed.
If Uber and Lyft take over, then that finance in the US will be different. I am guessing the Uk is similarly structured, but I have not checked.
