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What does the future hold for the automobile?
The Orange County Register ^
| October 14, 2017
| Joel Kotkin
Posted on 10/15/2017 6:12:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:13:42 PM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
To: InterceptPoint
The future of personal transportation is indeed bright. The gas/electric debate should be market driven, not edict driven.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:20:32 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
(Slip sliding away towards senility.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My guess is more autonomous vehicles, but using some other system than GPS. Maybe something embedded in the roads. Built in radar/whatever to avoid accidents.
I think hybrids may win out over totally electric at least for the next 20 years.
More government regulation. It is just the way things are.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:26:21 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Not a bad article, at all.
I forget who said this, but it is true.
Behold the United States Interstate Highway system, the greatest system of mass transit ever created!
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:29:48 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
Based somewhat on the German Autobahn.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:33:58 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They will have to pry my 572 inch Chevy V8 from my cold dead hands.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:36:19 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No way us folks out in the country can get by without cars.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:41:10 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
For a generation, the car has been reviled by city planners, greens Marxists, Marxists, and hippies. There, I fixed it.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:42:09 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Demographics notably the rise of the millennial generation were once seen as the key to unlocking a post-car future. Yes, younger people have been slower to buy cars than their predecessors, much as they have been slow to get full-time jobs, marry or buy homes, but more are now driving, so to speak, the car market, representing the largest share of new automobile buyers.Even if they aren't driving, they are using Uber like a crack addict.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:43:30 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: buckalfa
>>The gas/electric debate should be market driven, not edict driven.
All of our newer but not better mouse traps have been forced on the public.
toilets
air-conditioners
dishwasher detergent
light bulbs
digital tv antennas
Nationalized healthcare
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:45:19 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
While I don’t support it, short of an EMP attack, I expect virtually all vehicles to be self-driving in 20 years. As part of that, traffic capacity will at least triple on the roads, probably even more than that (due to networking of the vehicles). People also won’t be owning their their cars, for the most part. Think of Uber...but driverless
The good thing is that the need for public transportation goes away (other than in really high density areas), and along with that going away will the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on it every year.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:48:13 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: marktwain
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.” - Barack Obama
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:48:31 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Recharging electric cars no problem at all! What?
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:48:53 PM PDT
by
t4texas
(If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
To: BobL
"Think of Uber...but driverless..." Which will be great for disabled people like us.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:50:55 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: BobL
People also wont be owning their their cars, for the most part. Think of Uber...but driverless
I could see the lack of car ownership in the urban cores, I suppose, but why elsewhere? Plenty of reasons to own your own car.
I suspect Uber type sharing will increase, but a huge amount? In just 20 years. I doubt it will be a majority.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:51:57 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Same as it ever was...
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:56:09 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing is going to change. Petro fuels still hold the best energy and fuel management over any other.
Well, at least until micro-fusion reactors are created.
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posted on
10/15/2017 6:58:21 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hang in there, bro, not much longer before it starts. 20 years to fully take over, but I suspect in 5 years it will start.
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posted on
10/15/2017 7:03:26 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: All
What is needed on a mass assembly scale but nithing as big as the big manufacturers is a simple vehicle, minimal electronic devices, essentially none, not even a radio. Diesel is primary engine, again simple like a forklift engine. Its 100% emp proof or can be such as using an air starter. You want a radio, buy what you want and install it yourself.
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posted on
10/15/2017 7:03:49 PM PDT
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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