Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities
by dclowd9901 on Friday March 29, 2013 @10:41AM
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Wow, what a breathtakingly misinterpreted vision of the future of cars. Off the top of my head:
1) Parking lots will not dwindle in usage. What a silly notion. In fact, the demand for cheap driverless taxis will probably make public transit all but obsolete, thus causing more vehicles to occupy the road. Just because the cars will be in high demand doesn't mean they won't need a place to stop and wait on occasion. I could definitely see more efficient and sophisticated parking structures becoming more commonplace, ones where human usage isn't a consideration. Where do you think all those cars will go at 3am? They're not going to just keep driving around...
2) the author seems to think at some point, driverless vehicles will become so ubiquitous that policy would ever pass that stripped the usage of freeways away from drivers. As if that was even enforceable, there will always be a significant enough subset of the population that won't own or choose to use a driverless car. That's what makes driverless cars rather than driverless car infrastructure such an important development. It doesn't ask the world to change around it, or ask people to change.
1) Parking lots will not dwindle in usage. What a silly notion. In fact, the demand for cheap driverless taxis will probably make public transit all but obsolete, thus causing more vehicles to occupy the road. Just because the cars will be in high demand doesn't mean they won't need a place to stop and wait on occasion. I could definitely see more efficient and sophisticated parking structures becoming more commonplace, ones where human usage isn't a consideration. Where do you think all those cars will go at 3am? They're not going to just keep driving around...
2) the author seems to think at some point, driverless vehicles will become so ubiquitous that policy would ever pass that stripped the usage of freeways away from drivers. As if that was even enforceable, there will always be a significant enough subset of the population that won't own or choose to use a driverless car. That's what makes driverless cars rather than driverless car infrastructure such an important development. It doesn't ask the world to change around it, or ask people to change.