Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
IF you get into an accident that is your fault.
How many accidents have you got into where it is your fault? Some people, that answer is zero...just not for me
The point is being stranded, and only human drivers can be at fault for an issue. It is always a human issue that causes car wrecks.
So you'd never be stranded and out a lot of money.
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@Minion-Queen said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
There is no way I could live without a car and a bigger vehicle for hauling stuff where I live. We also live in a rural area and there is NO public transportation at all here.
Public transportation? Around here it's called hitching a ride in a buggy.
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Also the accident situation still means you are without a vehicle for some amount of time. Usually the time it takes to call your insurance, make a claim and then go to the car rental place.
If we had self driving cars, one accidents would almost completely disappear, and two a replacement car / ambulance would be called immediately.
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AMBULANCE!!!! I called an ambulance in July when my GF stopped breathing. Cost me $1500 for the 5 minute ride.
No thank you.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
AMBULANCE!!!! I called an ambulance in July when my GF stopped breathing. Cost me $1500 for the 5 minute ride.
No thank you.
You/She don't have medical insurance? Seems like a personal issue there.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
AMBULANCE!!!! I called an ambulance in July when my GF stopped breathing. Cost me $1500 for the 5 minute ride.
No thank you.
You/She don't have medical insurance? Seems like a personal issue there.
Not covered (a WHOLE different argument there LOL)
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Also medical emergency help must be provided, and if you are unable to pay for it they don't just refuse you. It's not as if they ask for cash at the scene before they gurney up the person having a heart attack.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
AMBULANCE!!!! I called an ambulance in July when my GF stopped breathing. Cost me $1500 for the 5 minute ride.
No thank you.
You/She don't have medical insurance? Seems like a personal issue there.
Not covered (a WHOLE different argument there LOL)
One which really is here to detract from the conversation at hand. Medical insurance is there because bodily parts fail, and accidents happen (and the health system is rigged in such a way to essentially mandate it).
[line about medical care was grounds for starting flame war].
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
AMBULANCE!!!! I called an ambulance in July when my GF stopped breathing. Cost me $1500 for the 5 minute ride.
No thank you.
You/She don't have medical insurance? Seems like a personal issue there.
Not covered (a WHOLE different argument there LOL)
You being not covered is entirely on you (especially with The Affordable Care Act)
So, it's now MY fault?
Edit for reference: https://consumerist.com/2016/02/22/164-per-mile-surprise-ambulance-bills-are-a-growing-problem-difficult-to-avoid/
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@Son-of-Jor-El I didn't mean to upset you.
It was about the concept of refusing insurance, and then being sticker-shocked at the price of medical services. It can't be had both ways.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
I'm 9 hours behind... so maybe this was already covered
Nothing about renting/calling a cab means the costs would go down.
If anything - self driving cars might really hurt the poor badly, just like how higher fuel prices affect the poor more than it does the wealthy.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
You're missing the point - you wouldn't be getting the same car each time.. so customizing it would be pointless.
You can't customize the train you take if you live in NYC. The car could be just an extension of that.
You're mentioning of needing a vehicle for work - OK I can see the need for a work vehicle that could be customized, so sure - there will be a market for them. But compared to the current modern car ownership market.... yeah I don't think so, I can definitely see many household not owning anymore.
Of course some markets just won't be large enough to support a taxi-like service, so if you're rural, ownership will be significantly higher than in suburban areas.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I didn't mean to upset you.
It was about the concept of refusing insurance, and then being sticker-shocked at the price of medical services. It can't be had both ways.
Actually it can. I'm not even clear how one could preclude the other. No matter how much you pay in insurance in the US, you can still get huge medical bills. Most of us avoid the insurance because, no matter how bad that sticker shock is, it's still less than the insurance cost.
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@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
AMBULANCE!!!! I called an ambulance in July when my GF stopped breathing. Cost me $1500 for the 5 minute ride.
No thank you.
You/She don't have medical insurance? Seems like a personal issue there.
Actually it's a national issue. I'm not coverable under Obamacare. There isn't a plan that covers my family. That's not a personal issue, that's an national issue.
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@Dashrender said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
If anything - self driving cars might really hurt the poor badly, just like how higher fuel prices affect the poor more than it does the wealthy.
Possible, but I'm guessing it is unlikely. The poor pay huge maintenance costs today, take huge risks from less safe vehicles. While it might not make things cheaper for the poor, it will level a lot of the playing fields in other ways.
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@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I'd disagree with you that you have a need for a car, you have a need for transportation / work-tool vehicle.
If you could avoid paying $300-600/month and have Toyota worry about the maintenance of the vehicle (and it cost you pennies in comparison) wouldn't you want to save that money?
No because my guess is it would work like a lease where you cannot do certain things to the car because technically, you don't own it. A simple matter of changing the radio would be a hassle.
Also, and your talking to a car guy, one of the BEST things about owning a car is customization. Even something small like replacing a diverter valve to a full blown blow-off valve just for the noise is fun as all hell!!
But that isn't the goal of driver-less cars. There will always be hobbyist. People who build or customize a car. And it will disappear eventually as people realize that buying a car, new or used is not the smart choice.
Sure you may purchase a used driver-less car to customize, but why? Make the "taxi" company deal with maintaining it. Imagine if you could hire a ferrari for $100/day?
I guess I see it different from you. Not only are there "hobbyists", but there are people who love the freedom of a car. There's really nothing like jumping in whenever you want. And it's YOUR car, not some company's car. I don't even want to get into how bad these cars would be abused because people don't own them (see rentals).
A Ferrari wouldn't work for me here...at least today. Plus at $100 a day needing to get to work would run me $500 a week and some days $600 a week. I'm in IT brother!! I can't afford that!! LOL
that wasn't his point. His point was that you COULD rent it for A Day. What I don't understand is - you can already do that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@DustinB3403 said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Son-of-Jor-El I didn't mean to upset you.
It was about the concept of refusing insurance, and then being sticker-shocked at the price of medical services. It can't be had both ways.
Actually it can. I'm not even clear how one could preclude the other. No matter how much you pay in insurance in the US, you can still get huge medical bills. Most of us avoid the insurance because, no matter how bad that sticker shock is, it's still less than the insurance cost.
Assuming you're generally healthy, that's possible, even likely, but if you have conditions or have something bad happen, you could easily see bills for that single incident that could cost decades or more than you would pay for coverage.
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@scottalanmiller said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
@Dashrender said in Trump appoints Kalanick and Musk to committee:
If anything - self driving cars might really hurt the poor badly, just like how higher fuel prices affect the poor more than it does the wealthy.
Possible, but I'm guessing it is unlikely. The poor pay huge maintenance costs today, take huge risks from less safe vehicles. While it might not make things cheaper for the poor, it will level a lot of the playing fields in other ways.
Do they? do they really pay huge maintenance costs + super cheap vehicle price > than newer car + hopefully lower maintenance costs?
Maybe they do - I just know when I used to drive $1000 or less cars, if the repair bill was more than a few hundred, you just ditch it and buy another cheap car. -
So let's move back to self driving cars...
So @Son-of-Jor-El and @Minion-Queen make some good points about ownership continuing. But I can see, and definitely hope for, the government not allowing person driven cars on the normal streets.
