[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[jim birch]

In a fairly short a time - maybe a few decades - it will be unnecessary or
even illegal to drive your own car in a city on account of the systematic
unreliability of human drivers.  To me, this suggests a system of
driverless taxis that can scoot off to the battery change station as
required.  Replacing taxi drivers with a computer and a bunch of sensors
changes the economics of taxis.

I'm not sure how people will take to such a system.  While driving is
enjoyable at times, it's often frustrating and of course regularly lethal.
I expect that the rich will be the first people sitting in their robotic
cars that may be more like a combo online office/lounge(/bar).  Then
everyone will want to get around that way.  Then there will be a push to
get the remaining human-controlled killer vehicles off the streets.

This scenario seems to work in favor of electrical vehicles.  The desire
for power under the bonnet would be reduced and the car or the service can
look after charging.

Jim