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Originally Posted by GenXer
There's room for both types of propulsion. I see the appeal in both, and I hate the us against them mentality. It's great that people can enjoy the sound and sensations of ICE on the weekend and drive a boring but efficient electric car to work.
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i also see the need for both. having an electric beater that takes me on boring drives to work and needs almost no maintenance is appealing. the unfortunate part is that once a majority of the population dont feel the need to drive themselves, society will push everyone to be the same. In time, you become a dinosaur and an oddity.
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Originally Posted by LogicalApex
I see it differently from you here. I see the improvement of self driving tech to be a net win or enthusiasts and not a net loss. I am not convinced we'll see Level 5 tech yet, but that's another story...
For the bulk of drivers driving is a chore they'd rather not deal with. It is why you see them fumbling around with their phones while driving and doing anything they can to focus on anything else. For those people increased self driving capabilities will remove them from the driving population while creating a lot more "predictable" drivers on the road for the rest of us. No more random lane changes because they dropped their phone and reached for it!
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I hope level 5 never comes along and even if it is after our life time, I still feel badly for those in the future who may not ever get the chance. At the rate that technology grows, i think it could be closer than we would like to think.
technology keeps growing in cars and little of it has to do with actual driving. Evolving entertainment systems in cars is at odds with the entertainment i get out of actually driving a car. They evolve and take driver attention away and in turn we replace the lost attention with systems to fill the gap left. It is a slide that I dont think we will ever get out of.