Autonomous vehicles vs. 914, Your Driving In The Days Of The Wild Old West! Options

[Skydance]

Autonomous vehicles will render our old cars useless, and therefore worthless.

I don't think so.

Horse people talked about these same concerns ever since horses stopped being beasts of burden. Today, the recreational use of horses has increased the horse population to it's highest number in the past fifty years. Considering the cost of ownership, shrinking countryside, escalating environmental restriction, and many other issues we still have a high and healthy horse population.

Autonomous vehicles will hit us fast, an avalanche of them is on the way. Level four driverless cars will be taking the kids to school, circling back to take me to work, and then picking up the dog at the groomer. Driverless cars make good sense, and for many reasons. We all get the concept. After all the safe shuttling is done, I think a lot of properly wired guys and girls will feel like taking a good old car for a real drive. I don't think we'll see people lose desire for driving, in fact I think the opposite is likely.

Check the oil, enjoy your ride, your living in the days of the wild old west!

[rick 918-S]

There will always be fuel. The government can mandate what ever they want. But when you step in front of a fuel truck your going to get run over. There is only so much you can legislate before the people wise up. Can you imagine the lower middle class having to choose between a tesla or life beyond the reach of their bicycle. Trapped in life by the good intensions of some out of touch social engineer? Can't happen.

[Big Len]

There will always be fuel. The government can mandate what ever they want. But when you step in front of a fuel truck your going to get run over. There is only so much you can legislate before the people wise up. Can you imagine the lower middle class having to choose between a tesla or life beyond the reach of their bicycle. Trapped in life by the good intensions of some out of touch social engineer? Can't happen.

Agree with Rick.

Also, do you believe that tractor trailers, railroad freight trains, airliners, and ships will be EVs in 20 years? If refineries are making diesel and jet fuel, they'll be making gasoline too.

[Elliot Cannon]

There will always be fuel. The government can mandate what ever they want. But when you step in front of a fuel truck your going to get run over. There is only so much you can legislate before the people wise up. Can you imagine the lower middle class having to choose between a tesla or life beyond the reach of their bicycle. Trapped in life by the good intensions of some out of touch social engineer? Can't happen.

Agree with Rick.

Also, do you believe that tractor trailers, railroad freight trains, airliners, and ships will be EVs in 20 years? If refineries are making diesel and jet fuel, they'll be making gasoline too.

There is much research being done to develop diesel engines for small airplanes. The reason is, diesel engines burn jet fuel quite nicely. Jet fuel is essentially kerosene. When oil was first refined it was to produce kerosene. Gasoline was (at the time) a useless by-product. Kerosene, (jet fuel) as a basic fuel will be able to power tractor trailers, railroad trains, airliners and ships. In other words just about all internal combustion engines. It is cheap to refine and even cheaper if you only need to refine one type of fuel. Water may also become an energy source. It's ironic that the elements of water when properly combined produce a tremendous amount of energy. Some people say that will never work. The same people say batteries will never be efficient to store enough electricity to drive an automobile. They are the same who told Orville and Wilbur it will never fly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) Research is constant. So are the naysayers. I put my faith in research. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)