> Are they including deadheading in their 'utilization' metric? Half the time (or more) the car is going to be self-driving to its next pickup point. Author he

> Are they including deadheading in their 'utilization' metric? Half the time (or more) the car is going to be self-driving to its next pickup point. Author here. You are completely right, I didn't include self-driving time in the second table. To correct my omission, let's add a column for 3X utilization where self-driving cars spend half of the time driving alone. Shared self-driving car (3x) ----------------------------- Used: 3 x 5% x 2 = 30% Parked: 70% Number of cars in the city: N/3 Parking places needed: (N/3) x 70% = N x 23.3% Parking reduction: (N x 95%) / (N x 23.3%) = 4.07x ----------------------------- So, in that theoretical case, we would need 4x less parking. However, this is just a rough calculation, for better precision you would use some traffic simulation application. Thanks for feedback!