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Originally Posted by pig4bill
Right, there are no Fords in Europe and the UK, and no Holdens (GM) in Australia.
I don't know about Australia, but nobody in Europe thinks of Ford as an American car maker. My grampa was managing director of a Ford dealership and they were very proud of Ford Germany's roots going all the way back to 1925. Opel is another example. They were owned by GM since 1929 and nobody thought of them as US cars. A couple of years ago, Renault bought them and customers don't think it's a French car.
I doubt many people think of Rolls-Royce or Bentley as German cars, even though the companies are owned by BMW and Volkswagen, respectively.
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Originally Posted by Gzesh
If, otoh, as was posited above there will be a proposed ban on drivers personally operating vehicles on those same streets, THAT is another matter.
Nobody will stop people from driving around their farms in Texas. Rush hour in LA might be something different. Pretty sure that owning a car will be a luxury in most metro areas in the future. Not too different from today in Manhattan where people have to pay more rent for their parking spot than the average person pays for their apartment in other parts of the country.
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As for the ageist garbage posted above about "old people", that was ignorant of that poster. Old people LOVE having someone else drive them around. (I no longer rent cars when I go to Costa Rica, because Uber is readily available, better, and cheaper than either car rentals or taxis.)
Has nothing to do with being driven around but with the fact that there won't be a driver present.
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Originally Posted by NickMPK
It is stupefying to me that anyone could fail to realize that self-driving cars are the single biggest time-saving and life-saving innovation of this half-century.
If recent history shows us one thing, then that a huge percentage of the population isn't willing to give up some god given right for the common good.