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Originally Posted by fjtorres
3- For non-metro areas, a more practical near term (but less buzzworthy) solution would be autonomous ground vehicles.
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Missing your point.
A community would have to be a certain size to make it financially viable to maintain the ground vehicles.
If the community is big enough say 10,000, which IMO will still not be financially viable, the possibilities for traffic problems would be there. Lot of small towns you have to go on a freeway to get where you are going. I doubt that an autonomous vehicle would be permitted to go at freeway speeds and I imagine, perhaps wrongly, that road rage at being stuck behind a robot vehicle, that may be seen as taking away jobs, as being a possible problem.
It is mildly amusing to contemplate though.
Helen