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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by NicoJuicy on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:50PM (#22087942)
You forgot one thing.

Autonomous cars won't have the same algorithm as selfish humans to position themselves.

A human will go to one of the busy places and will probably drive back to the original point of pickup.

While a computer will be notified ( 1 car only parked on the busy place) and immediately replaced by a new available/nearby car. Making the process more efficient, more remote places will be handled faster. Busy places more efficient.

Not all cabs will need to earn money, since the biggest expense will be the car driving and not the human driver ( waiting for work).

And as always, if income > fine. They will just pay the fine, some companies even negotiate it because of the sheer amount.

Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by threeseed on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:17PM (#22088414)
> And as always, if income > fine. They will just pay the fine

Up until the point they are banned.

Everyone, especially lawmakers, are pretty sick of tech companies breaking the law in order to be "disruptive". As we've seen recently with all of the e-scooter bans.

Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by NicoJuicy on Sunday January 19, 2020 @06:56AM (#22090915)
You won't get banned for paying too much parking tickets.

Scooter bans were mostly because it was disruptive having a staple of scooters in the middle of the pedestrian road and they were consistently breaking the rules.

Ps. We do similar stuff for cities at our company. So I don't need an externzl source for this currently.