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This article paints an overly rosy picture of self driving cars. A significant cause of traffic on our roads is single occupancy vehicles. Opening up the gates
by Paul-ish 10y ago
This article paints an overly rosy picture of self driving cars. A significant cause of traffic on our roads is single occupancy vehicles. Opening up the gates to zero occupancy vehicles could cause the number of cars on the road to skyrocket, because you are no longer bounded by the number of people.
- Xorlev 10y agoIt could also lead to greater ownership sharing. If cars are self driving, at that point it's more like a taxi.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoOne thing we can be certain of, if self-driving / autonomous cars become a reality, is that there will be unintended consequences. Predicting the intended consequences is hard enough.
- tim333 10y agoThey'd probably put some sort of tax on them rather than letting me have ten empty cars cruise about for fun.
- Paul-ish 10y agoThat would probably be a good solution. We will see if it is politically tenable.