Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco

Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by jacquesm on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:38PM (#30861115)

This is true in the case where you compare a fleet of electric vehicles with the same size fleet of combustion based vehicles.

But that's an entirely different subject. We are simply looking at the effect on the total number of miles driven here, which will absolutely explode once driverless vehicles are a reality. And those KWh will have to come from somewhere and they will have a carbon footprint even when they are entirely made with renewables.

The solution to this is to drive substantially less not to drive more with cleaner vehicles.

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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by bduerst on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:37PM (#30885132)

There is no reason to believe that driverless cars will be driven more than regular vehicles, and even if they were, you'd be able to regulate fleet pricing to stem overusage.

There is still no comparison between electric vehicles and combustion vehicles in terms of carbon footprint.

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