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RE: Getting Tanked

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I'm afraid of the apocalypse coming down when my car is out of gas!

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I fill up when it is cheap. It is crazy here, there are 10-15% swings across the week.

I do know quite a few people who will drive around and around looking for a parking spot that they don't have to parallel park in. Is this similar?

They mentioned this too. 96% of people were anxious - but not everyone avoided it. I don't avoid parallel parking, I see it as a challenge :)

I wonder if these gas-averse people will have an easier time with self-driving cars. Technology to their rescue.

I suspect so. But, like most of the technology, it also means they will have lower driving skills, because they aren't driving. Maybe a good thing in the case of driving, but it is happening to all of our skills. It is like the people in the movie Wall-E

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It is like the people in the movie Wall-E

I didn't see that movie. Looked it up

The film incorporates various topics including consumerism, corporatocracy, nostalgia, waste management, human environmental impact and concerns, obesity/sedentary lifestyles, and global catastrophic risk.

These are topics for a children's movie?! Propaganda I'd call it, early indoctrination.

I see parallel parking as a challenge, too. I math and physics puzzle. I really like to do it, and now with a back-up camera in my car, it is easy as can be to do. I like driving in general, time to think and sing. I do like being a passenger so I can look around, I do not trust that kind of technology. I'll be in control of my body as much as I can, thank you.

It is a cute movie with a cute robot that protects a plant to save humanity :)