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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by danweber on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @06:31PM (#4352730)
Remember that the "5%" of the time you use your car is probably the same "5%" of the time every one else wants to use their car, i.e. rush hours.
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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by labcomputer on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @12:13AM (#4353863)
Yes, it seems unlikely that the same car could be re-used for multiple trips. However, you could move the parking lots far away from the places people want to go because the car could drop you off at the door and then valet itself to a remote lot. That would at least free some of the very valuable space currently used by downtown parking lots.
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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by roel_v on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @04:44AM (#4354561)
Nobody is talking about replacing a car part of let's say 100 with a car park of 5. If we could just replace it with a car park of 50, which with current travel patterns is perfectly reasonable, that would be a tremendous gain.
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