Re:Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
by epicide on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:31PM
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The big difference is that existing ride sharing and driverless ride sharing are compatible with each other. Ride sharing companies can slowly increase their number of driverless vehicles as it makes financial sense for them. Even if they only need them one or two days a week, there is still a balance that can be struck and that balance should increase over time as more people continue to utilize ride sharing services.
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Re:Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
by tkahnoski on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:28PM
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Even further a self-driving car can relocate itself to meet ad-hoc demand. This means privately owned vehicles (assuming they are self-driving) could be enlisted to service this additional demand.
Most vehicles sit idle in a parking lot but could be doing meaningful work.
(Queue SitCom script where someone tries to leave a party but forgot to turn off the feature and their car won't be back for 30 minutes...)