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Simulation Finds Self-Driving Cars Will Eliminate 90% of Cars, Open Public Space
- squozzer 10y agoDriving times might decrease more than the simulation suggests -- if the cars are able to co-ordinate their stops and starts, avoiding the "accordion effect" so common with human-piloted cars in traffic. And, if the public accepts single-passenger "commuter" cars, current roads could handle a lot more throughput. The link to the PDF is wrong: http://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/2015-04-30-cpb-selfdriving.pdf http://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/2015-04-30-... http://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/2015-05-28-big-data.pdf http://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/2015-05-28-...
- superuser2 10y ago90% of cars (plus all that corresponding real estate) is a staggering amount of total capital and operating costs. Are driver wages really the limiting factor here?
- tim333 10y agoAn advantage of your own car is you can leave your junk in it. I'm not sure how they deal with that in their simulation.