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Remember how computers were supposed to eliminate paper in the office? Now we have more paper than ever thanks to computers. With self-driving cars people can
by casylum 11y ago
Remember how computers were supposed to eliminate paper in the office? Now we have more paper than ever thanks to computers.
With self-driving cars people can have their cars out running errands for them during the day. Need to pickup something two hours away? No problem, send your car to get it while you are at work. The car that was sitting idle in the parking lot is now out on the road during the day.
By eliminating the driver the number of cars on the road might increase dramatically.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> By eliminating the driver the number of cars on the road might increase dramatically. Charge road tax by the mile. Replaces the gas tax, regulates a limited physical resource.
- dragonwriter 11y agoRight. Looked at a different way, self-driving cars increase the utility provided by cars, so -- since people will only buy self-driving cars if the price premium over non-self-driving cars is less than the added utility -- can be expected, all other things being equal, to increase the number of cars sold and in use. OTOH, because self-driving cars decrease the number of cars needed in society to deliver a given degree of utility, they could facilitate a reduction in the number of cars, but some other changes would need to occur to realize that reduction. Tax, regulatory, and/or urban design policies which disfavor individual ownership of vehicles in favor of centralized on-call services would have to reduce the number of cars on the road.
- Retric 11y agoI have gone over a full year without thouching paper at work before so the 'paperless' office is real.