Originally Posted by tandempower

Well, think about it. If you get bailed out once, you can show profuse gratitude, but if you keep taking the risk and it happens again, the question is why you continued if you didn't want to set up another bail-out situation. So my goal is to figure out a method to take long-trips car-free and have a solid backup plan that could be used as much as needed without bothering anyone or breaking the bank.

I think self-driving vehicles would be the ideal solution for getting a ride when you need one and then not having to worry about leaving a car parked at a trail head and/or getting back to it any time soon. Plus, they could deliver groceries, pick you up wherever and bring you wherever whenever you needed them to, etc. But judging from the recent deaths that occurred so near to a legislative vote on self-driving car testing, I'm guessing it's going to be slow going getting these things deployed to the point they're available for LCF convenience. So in the meantime I'm trying to think of other kinds of backup plans.