Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?

Hmm, you have a point there.

Its not the selling of the cars as much as the service department. Dealers make the vast majority of their money in service. Tesla is a HUGE GIGANTIC THREAT to this model. First, the cars need little of traditional pricey service (fluids, pumps, transmission, etc) because it doesn't even have those components. Second, Tesla sees car repair as a net-0 profit. They don't want to make a single penny off servicing your car.

The dealers know this. They make surprisingly very little off selling vehicles.

Because you like the Government telling you what you can and can't purchase? You also must love paying insane amounts of money for car repair.

As in, the age of the universe? If aliens existed, they would be so far advanced that he, you and anyone else could even fathom it. Now lets put it this way, would we as humans go our of our way to step on a a tiny ant colony in the middle of the desert in Australia?

Let me keep what I don't use then. If I used 2gb of my 4gb, let me rollover the 2 remaining to the next month and so on and so forth. If in 3 years I have 50GB free so be it, I paid for it.

$15 per GB over...

"Hello Mr Jones, I see you are interested in a Model S P90D in red with XXX options. Just so happens our rental facility next door we have one for a 1-hour rental with the 1st hour free. It also happens that we just got in this rental and you will be the first one driving it! Once you get back from your rental you can buy this car through our Used Rentals Program, just like Hertz, Budget, etc, for $1 under new MSRP!"

0 per month, have owned it (Mazda 3) for 4 years. Paid it off in 3. Gas is about $30/week. Insurance is under $50. Maintenance has been inexpensive, only replaced the brakes once and the tires twice. Have never paid for parking. About to hit 100k miles.

It's not a cost saving, its far more expensive in fact. Can you imagine paying around $10 for every 1-way trip you do? I'm guessing I do 50 1-way rides a week all the running around to work, kids events, shopping, etc. $500 a week is not what I call saving money.

If you can't afford a used car, you definitely can't afford to be spending way more in 'cab' fares at around $10 a 1-way trip.

And can you imagine haling a 'cab' for every stop in your running around at around $10 a pop?

Well I do agree with the 20 years part, but not so much with the AI part. Google has a VERY impressive system, I highly recommend watching this video (very cool stuff too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik

But I still think it's a long way off even with how good it is.