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Honestly, in Manhattan they should eliminate automobile access to a great deal of the streets and avenues.

• AJ007 10y ago
  They are in the process of doing it, at least slowly. There still needs to be some sort of delivery truck access, irregardless. Parts of downtown Chicago provide an interesting example with multi-leveled streets, the big deliveries and trash collection can be all be done out of sight. I suspect very soon we will see a city, or multiple cities, start blocking off certain streets and then neighborhoods to non-autonomous vehicles. Maybe it will be Manhattan, maybe it will be another city. This lowers the bar for how advanced the self driving tech needs to be by a lot. You can have 100% traffic enforcement. Pedestrian deaths should almost be completely eliminated short of some very unusual edge cases.
  • digi_owl 10y ago
    Sounds like they should resurrect the pneumatic delivery system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
  • anamoulous 10y ago
    It had never occurred to me to limit streets in cities to autonomous only cars, but that makes total sense.