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what if the cost of having my empty car wander the city is cheaper than paying for parking? will parking costs go down? will there be some laws forbidding this
by hayksaakian 11y ago
what if the cost of having my empty car wander the city is cheaper than paying for parking?
will parking costs go down? will there be some laws forbidding this behavior?
- sigmar 11y agoThis is a very interesting hypothetical from a public policy standpoint. Perhaps the city would find a need to subsidize parking for the sake of pollution, traffic, and energy consumption concerns. edit: maybe subsidize is the wrong word, but rather that they will incentivize affordable parking and make more available.
- tyre 11y agoAimless driving would be difficult to regulate. Instead, if you know roughly how long you'll be gone, they could temporarily Lyft while you shop.
- mintplant 11y agoIt seems to me that a completely empty car wandering the city would make a more enticing target for theft.
- sandworm101 11y agoMore than an empty parked car? I'd bet a car doing 80 on the highway is harder to rob than one parked in a lot.
- VLM 11y agoProblematic questions would be raised about cars that redlined certain city neighborhoods. There is illegal robbery and legal robbery... once neighborhood redlining became popular, you can guarantee cities would start raising revenue by ticketing self driving cars caught cruising residential zones, entertainment districts, etc. We have plenty of existing laws and case law against "cruising". You can imagine the bug reports already "Your service failed to inform my car that the sportsball team was having a game last night, placing the stadium district under no-cruise law, so I got ticketed, towed, impounded, and had to pay for a taxi home"
- pbhjpbhj 11y agoYou have the car do taxi runs - lyft/uber/whatever - or deliveries until you need it again.