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Originally Posted by jcal87
The electric car and hybrid movement actually somewhat scares me. Not because of the cars themselves, but I fear one day people like us will be penalized somehow or be charged an insane amounts of money to operate our cars. I am in my early 30's and I sometimes wonder what it may be like 30 years from now.
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Originally Posted by ULTM8Z
Frankly, who cares... who cares about any new car.
Most of the guys I run into trying to race me in some new car probably can't even find the hood latch.
I'm actually tired of it... some poseur buys a car, thinks hes a bad ass all of a sudden and starts harassing me? Please...
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Originally Posted by preston
I totally believe this will happen. I'm 51 and I've never seen society so eager to tell everyone else what to say and do.
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Originally Posted by slimjim
I had this discussion recently with a friend.He's not into cars, drives to/ from work and hates every minute of it, he studies automation and is getting more and more involved with it and he's very enthusiastic that it'll take over completely within our lifetime. I hate the idea of it but with the safety results Tesla is already making, it will be a hard battle we will never win with insurance companies.
I think over a very long period we'll see a huge transition to electric automated cars, but they'll never get rid of petrol classics, motorbikes and everything else cool...they'll just make it far more expensive for us.
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I agree with all of you, especially Preston, and it sickens me. I am in my mid-60's. Glad I won't see where this is all going to be in another 20-30 years.
30 years ago there were no computers, cell phones, climate change (as a religion), et al. Hell, 100 years ago the car was a new fangled thing that was outlawed from many towns or had to yield to horses.
The only constant is change.
Those "we" elect now see themselves as the great illuminati, and their vision is to create a protective society where everything is provided and there is no individualism.
But if "we" can't drive without looking at our phones for 5 minutes, (and we all see this every day) to see what Kim Kardashian is having for lunch, then I guess autonomous travel is inevitable.
My 30 something year old nephew lives in a Chicago suburb and sees driving in the same vein as taking out the garbage. Hates it, but a necessary evil. He hopes his current car is his last car. He would rather Uber than drive himself. And Uber will be one of the first to offer autonomous travel.
But this rant is going in a political direction....and we don't want that!