Sale of petrol and diesel cars to be banned by 2040
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(Older) people won't adopt en masse, they'll just die off. I doubt my son (currently 18-months old) will ever get a driving license though. Why bother if automated transport is cheap and freely available?
Given how far behind they are electifying the Great Western Mainline (it's supposed to have been completed by now but it's at least end of 2018!! AND it's costing 10x as much as predicted) and how that has spiralled cost wise then yeah have no faith with how they plan to roll this out.
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So that means it will update every time I turn it on, I will forget my password as the update will clear it again and I won't be able to use it in traffic caused by sales?
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There are already wireless chargers so its not so far fetched.
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Will this mean the end of the boy racer?
I doubt it, not with the 0-60 times you get on electric cars.
That's the cities though (I wouldn't even bother having a car if I lived in London) but out in the stick public transport is still appalling.
One thing's for certain, people are going to get fleeced, both by councils in the next few years bringing in spurious charges, and by electricity prices over the next few decades.
It's likely the manufacturers will have stopped making petrol cars long before 2039.
Same here. I'll be getting close to retirement. So last minute V8.
Might as well go all out and get a used V12 vantage
petrol will probably be £5 a litre though 
I won't. No way
I think the government massively over-estimates the amount of people that actually WANT a self-driving car.
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They can't even roll out fibre broadband arl ower, never mind under the road inductive charging
You did read that the cars will be banned for sale in the UK, possibly Europe as well. That however doesn't account for the rest of the world. Can you see this happening in America? It simply isn't going to happen. I really do have to roll my eyes at the people who think the future is going to be some sort of magical clean glistening white panacea a bit like some science fiction film. The sad reality is that the majority of the infra-structure of the UK is Victorian.
Once the Government realise the logistics behind it all and the loss of revenue from taxation, they'll quietly shelve it like all pie in the sky initiatives.
I can see fuel stations preferring this method but they would need a lot of modifications due to the dangers of storing the fuel.
Also at the moment most of the hydrogen fuel relies on fossil fuels during production so it just moves the problem to another part of the chain.
I am with you though, perhaps a blend of hydrogen and battery with a PV cell on the roof so that you could avoid the issues of sporadic hydrogen fuel stations because let's be honest, all the small fuel stations would die a death (if they haven't already) due to the cost to switch over.
Wrong. We'll all be on the Axiom
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Since when did 0-60 times matter. I'm thinking 10" loud exhausts, 16x9 speakers and lowering springs to make the huge front splitter scrape along the floor
Who cares what the rest of the world is doing - based on that no one would ever change anything.
I'd rather we went full electric plus all the new tech that comes with it. Roads don't need to change to introduce electric and you underestimate the ability of any government to raise tax. When electric really takes off it will get taxed to replace the missing revenue in some form or another.