California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present

Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by Hello71 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:47AM (#16473722)

this would in fact decrease the traffic for two reasons:

1. self-driving cars make more efficient use of the roadway

2. parking lots could (partially) be converted into roadway, or even better, actual business, so there will be less road to "outside of town".

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by ginko on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:51AM (#16473769)

Both leading to more cars on the road, i.e. more traffic

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by dx034 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:54AM (#16473795)

Converting on-street parking can help to increase capacity but I don't think you can convert a lot of parking lots into roads. And where real estate prices are high, they're often underground anyway. Making more efficient use of the roadway is great but they'll probably not more than double efficiency (as long as not all cars are self driving and the road is also used by pedestrians), so doubling the number of trips will still increase congestion.

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by Sharlin on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:06AM (#16473909)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

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