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The TaaS will take much longer to arrive in more rural areas, and for truly rural Taas won't ever work. These folks will need CT's or at least EV's, because gas stations and mechanics will be increasingly fewer and farther apart. You'll start to see them disappearing in major cities first, and...

GnarlyDudeLive - I agree with you. If I remember correctly, the Rethink chaps estimated that the average cost to own an ICE is $15k per year, and they estimate autonomous EV TaaS will cost $1-2k per year. So, one tenth of the cost. In studying disruptive technologies, they claim that there has...

Rethink -X (a think tank spun out from Stanford) produced a white paper in 2017, Rethink Transportation, that predicts a massive disruption similar to the way autos disrupted the horse and buggy. It might only take 12 years because the cost of transport will drop by more than 90% with autonomous...