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To: TimF who wrote (77162)	6/2/2017 5:37:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

My Toyota Camry is now 19 years old with plenty of life left in it. 20 years from now, it will be obsolete in many ways. So if I buy a new one now, with the same basic technology, it will be scrap long before its mechanical life is over. Things do take longer than I think [that's my experience anyway - mobile Cyberspace has taken 15 years longer than I thought it would take and mobile phones are cheap little things to make, unlike cars and all the infrastructure to support them. But electric cars have been going for years and autonomous systems such as self-parking, auto-braking, stay in lane etc have been under development for decades. At some stage, the car will be autonomous. Hybrids will be replaced by all-electric. Uberizing will avoid ownership cost and that process is well underway with hordes of people getting an Uber instead of using their own car. At some stage, cars will be electric, Uberized, autopiloted. Legacy cars like my Camry will be banned as too dangerous and obstructive to the flow of traffic. Maybe they'll still be allowed in certain regions. Autonomous cars will first take over places like Singapore, London, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Stockholm, New York, then work their way out to the hinterlands. Motorways will also be ideal places for autonomous vehicles [very few people, animals, other stuff, on the road for example, and straightforward driving]. Mqurice