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!

[r_towle]

Average MPG for a compact in the EU is well over 60 MPG with many in the lower 70,s.

Why are we not seeing those cars?
Profit?

[Andyrew]

Average MPG for a compact in the EU is well over 60 MPG with many in the lower 70,s.

Why are we not seeing those cars?
Profit?

Imperial and US gallons are different size. They also have MUCH smaller cars and engines than we Muricans do.

[Mark Henry]

Average MPG for a compact in the EU is well over 60 MPG with many in the lower 70,s.

Why are we not seeing those cars?
Profit?

Imperial and US gallons are different size. They also have MUCH smaller cars and engines than we Muricans do.

Well.....cars in Europe the milage is in 'liters per kilometer' so I highly doubt if that is true.
UK was the only EU country using the Imperial Gallon and like Canada they changed to the metric system in the early 1970's.

The second part of your statment is true and the number one reason they are getting such milage.
These cars also will not meet DOT safety standards, if brought up to DOT standards I'd bet they would weigh up to a 1000 lbs heavier.

BTW Rich isn't those 60mpg cars VW's with diesel engines? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)