From the beginning of her career, Adams chose a fairly conventional vehicle for her fiction.
It accelerates briskly and stops just as assuredly as a conventional vehicle.
In the same review, the magazine showed a $5,700 price premium for the Toyota Prius over a conventional vehicle.
"Any conventional vehicle would have been replaced many times over in the lifespan of the Defender," a spokeswoman said.
In 2006, Airstream introduced the BaseCamp, a lightweight tent-trailer hybrid feathery enough to be pulled by most any conventional vehicle.
Just outside the main gate of the Chicago World's Fair, the Dymaxion car was rammed by a conventional vehicle, which happened to belong to a city official.
That's because unlike full autonomy, it won't be reliant on hyper-detailed maps and could be easily packaged into a conventional vehicle sold to consumers, he says.
Gupta says that the monthly cost of renting one of his vehicles will be significantly less than running a conventional vehicle and paying a driver.
The car, called the Audi Sport Quattro Laserlight, is capable of what Ulrich calls "piloted driving" but betrays no outward sign of being different from a conventional vehicle.
Mr. Lankton agrees that even with fast charging, the electric car is not going to replace the conventional vehicle for lengthy trips.
"When there is a crash of a golf cart and a conventional vehicle," Ms. DeModica of the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division said, "the passengers of the golf cart are extremely vulnerable.
