How driverless cars will affect our cities

Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities by jrockway on Friday March 29, 2013 @10:17AM (#5460823)

Cost, I'm guessing. A studio apartment in Manhattan becomes a 5-bedroom house outside of the city. If you're willing to sit on NJ Transit or the LIRR for 3 hours a day, that is. (I don't see how self-driving cars are going to change commute times. There will still be traffic, and they'll still only go 60 miles an hour.)

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Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities by tocomment on Friday March 29, 2013 @10:21AM (#5460845)

I think human driver overcompensating for braking ahead, and human reaction time creating traffic "waves" contributes significantly to traffic. (At least that's what I've heard).

Also self driving cars wouldn't need as much distance between cars to be able to stop safely so you could physically fit more cars on a given stretch of road.

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Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities by alex_young on Friday March 29, 2013 @10:27AM (#5460875)

Traffic doesn't move at 60 mph during rush hour though.

Automated cars have the potential to reduce the lag in speedup after breaking, eliminate most accidents, and pick better routes, and all while letting you do other things with your time. Commute time is a huge reason to do this.

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