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You're assuming car ownership will remain in place as it is now. If vehicles are shared instead of fully owned, you can be more efficient. Think of how many tri
by choward 11y ago
You're assuming car ownership will remain in place as it is now. If vehicles are shared instead of fully owned, you can be more efficient. Think of how many trips are simply transporting a car. For example, let's say I need to pick up a friend from the airport. I would waste a one-way trip going to the airport. I didn't need to go to the airport. The only reason it was necessary for me to go is that I needed to get a car to my friend.
If my fried could have just summoned the nearest self driving car, an entire one way trip wouldn't ever occurred.
- skykooler 11y agoHowever, there is a flaw in that system, in that most people tend to be on the road at the same time (rush hours).
- maxxxxx 11y agoIf it becomes popular to share cars then this may work. Looking at reality I have my doubts though. If people wanted to share cars you would see neighbors sharing cars for example. In the US many families or friends not even share cars. When I go out with people it ends up with seven people going in 4 cars or similar. A self driving car takes the pain out of driving so unless society changes a lot we will see more cars driving around (often empty) and people will have longer commutes while sleeping their car.
- biomcgary 11y agoSharing a vehicle is not fun when the other driver could: 1. wreck it, 2. not return it promptly, 3. trash it. A self-driving car solves problem 1, partially solves 2, and does nothing for 3.
- maxxxxx 11y agoI guess a self driving shared car needs also to be self cleaning. that may work.
- yourapostasy 11y agoPut together a amalgam self-driving Sanisette [1] and you implement an even more ridiculous aspect of Idiocracy than its La-Z-Boy with a built-in toilet [2]. And while I make a joke about it now, someones in the future are going to convince a line of VCs to incrementally enable people eventually gaming/Facebooking in VR while hurtling down the freeway doing Number Two, and get handsome exits on each step towards that, and it will all be counted as a net economic benefit in the end. I'm either kidding, or will have checked out well before that ever becomes mainstream. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette [2] http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/idiocracy-chair1.jpg http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/...