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Ride sharing means fewer vehicles existing, but many more vehicles on the road. Today my car goes with me to work, and then it goes home with me. If I accept r
by tropo 10y ago
Ride sharing means fewer vehicles existing, but many more vehicles on the road.
Today my car goes with me to work, and then it goes home with me. If I accept ride sharing, then it has to also travel empty. Each time I use the car, the car must first drive to where I am. This roughly doubles the number of cars on the road.
With self-driving, it gets worse. I can send small children places alone. This means they can visit friends whenever they like, and they can participate in more activities.
- Decade 10y agoRide sharing could also mean fewer vehicles on the road and, crucially, taking parking spaces. Today, even if I had a car, I would not use it. Why? Because there is no place to park. The last couple times I tried driving a car at night, I spent double the travel time, just crawling around the streets near my house until I could find an open parking spot. After the last time, I vowed: never again. With self-driving, it gets better. When driving is a monetary transaction and human-powered transportation is free, then I expect that people will feel less impulsive about just taking a quick drive. With other necessary trends in human-scale urbanism, I expect that means the small children will just have to bike themselves to their friends’ places.