Here’s what will very likely happen, not if, but when – it’s just a matter of time.
Seventy percent of the vehicles that are on the roads will no longer be needed. That’s a conservative estimate.
If you had a choice between driving your own vehicle and parking it 95% of the time, sitting, not being used, and paying several hundred dollars a month for a loan, fuel, insurance, registration fees, maintenance, etc.
Or having an app on your phone that costs maybe a hundred dollars a month, with a hundred or so free miles, and you can hail an autonomous, driverless vehicle – any type, at any time of the day, with a minimum waiting time; which would you choose?
It’s still a ways away, but level 5 autonomous vehicles will eventually be available, and hundreds of millions of dollars are currently being spent on achieving that goal.
Would this scenario cause you to reassess your narrow view of what the future will look like without fossil fuels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the details can be found in the YouTube videos on the RethinkX channel, where Tony Seba and his colleagues talk about their research on transportation in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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