The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing congestion

Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by Johnny555 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:10PM (#15185816)

Why would the motivations of a driverless car company be more altruistic than that of an Uber driver? An idle car makes no money, fleet owners will send their cars where they are more likely to get a fare.

Even if the cars are privately owned and people just have their car come in to drop them off at work before sending them out of the way to park somewhere (since inner city parking is scarce, so there's no space to park every car at the worker's building), that doubles the number of trips -- once to drop them off, and once to go somewhere and park.

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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:07PM (#15186266)

Fleet owners will send as many cars as they need into the fullest places, and as many cars as need into the emptier ones. Uber drivers are each one out for themselves, so they can't do any global optimization.

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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by maxerickson on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:15PM (#15186329)

The incentives are different. Robo fleet wants to maximize fleet utilization. Uber driver wants to maximize utilization of 1 car.

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Re:The 'Self Drive' Act puts America on the road to reducing... by dexterdog on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:04PM (#15186231)

But a company will not put two cars in the same place to compete for one fare.

And the remote parking may double the number of trips, but the parking is not going to be far away and will take much less space than a normal parking lot.

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