Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by topmonk on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:44PM (#18020996)

I wonder, when/if autonomous taxis come about will the whole attitude of catering to cars over than pedestrians will cease.

If people don't have cars, parking won't be a problem, and walking from one store to another rather than paying for a taxi would become preferable. Then more people would have the awful experience of walking half a mile through a giant paved parking lot which would motivate people to change it.

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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by ajmurmann on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:22PM (#18021444)

I'm worried that the opposite will become true. Autonomous taxis will drastically reduce the cost of taking a car ride. The benefit though might be that we get rid of the parking lots since a much higher percentage of total cars should be made up of vehicles that are shared and those shared vehicles should have much higher utilization than personal cars.

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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @10:17AM (#18024320)

I feel like you'd end up with a micro-payment type system - it'd be $1 to cross a parking lot or two and you'd have fields of parking lots everywhere to house the cars that would serve the instant demand people would expect.

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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by topmonk on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:50PM (#18028580)

I don't think there would be so many parking lots needed. Cars today spend most of their time not in use, which is why we need such large amounts of area to store them.

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