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To: Eric who wrote (75823)	3/31/2017 3:16:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

It will be fun to see the whining and moaning and self-pleading "what about the environment" as taxes are loaded onto electric cars in the amount needed to replace the taxes lost from the legacy car industry. But it will be a good thing to have user-pays. Also to sell road space at what the market will bear. Traffic jams will be a 20th century memory [and early 21st century]. Multi-passenger uberized autopilot cars will be a great way to evade road taxes - which will also keep traffic numbers down and speeds up. The idea of a bus stopping with 40 people on board for one person to get on will be an anachronism. Buses and trains will be abandoned. Door to door journeys will be the name of the game. In the 19th and 20th century, people piled into trains and buses for economies of scale and because equipment was expensive. With 4 people sharing an uberized autopilot electric car, the cost per kilometre will be about 5c each. Good bye expensive London Underground; noisy, crowded, unpleasant. Mqurice