Re:Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parkin...
by joe_the_user on Sunday September 30, 2018 @06:51PM
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Sure, switching to an autonomous taxi would be an easy call for some people and would not appeal for others.
But when you have that, you double or multiply by N, the road usage. Which is going to produce multiple problems for everyone.
People imagine that once autonomous vehicles reach a certain level, they'll just morph to provide all the benefits of a well-planned public transit system. But I'm doubting common good can just fall out of more chaos.
And hey, the private automobile itself was thrown onto society with effectively no consideration of externalities and brought us to our current heaven/hell of urbanism. So it's quite possible that, despite some talk of planning, autonomous vehicles will just appear, make a hash of things and all the clean-up will happen later, if at all.
But when you have that, you double or multiply by N, the road usage. Which is going to produce multiple problems for everyone.
People imagine that once autonomous vehicles reach a certain level, they'll just morph to provide all the benefits of a well-planned public transit system. But I'm doubting common good can just fall out of more chaos.
And hey, the private automobile itself was thrown onto society with effectively no consideration of externalities and brought us to our current heaven/hell of urbanism. So it's quite possible that, despite some talk of planning, autonomous vehicles will just appear, make a hash of things and all the clean-up will happen later, if at all.