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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by imron on Sunday June 04, 2017 @11:17PM (#14485059)
There is even a reasonable argument to be made that self driving cards will increase traffic and deadlock.

For example, imagine driving in to the city for some business meeting and then rather than worry about the hassle of finding a parking spot you just let the car drive about by itself for a couple of hours. Now multiply that by however many hundred (or thousand) people have the same idea.

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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by hilyen on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:21AM (#14485604)
Why not just tell the car to find a spot to park and you can call it when you're ready?
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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by imron on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:08AM (#14486207)
Petrol is cheaper than parking.
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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by MarkMc on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:13AM (#14485221)
That is easily solved by congestion charging.
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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by closeparen on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:26AM (#14485625)
Transportation is one of the few contexts where the US has adopted the socialist system of allocation by waiting list, rather than price.

Congestion used to be the one inconvenience rich people couldn't buy themselves out of. I can understand the impulse to keep it that way, though the benefits of congestion pricing probably do outweigh the symbolic problems.

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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by MarkMc on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:32AM (#14514025)
Very true. And the mayor of London, a self-described socialist, introduced congestion charging to that city in 2003.
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Re:G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves by infogulch on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:36AM (#14485446)
In those words that idea is simple to explain. The logistics of an actual implementation would not be so easy.
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