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I agree. So we'll just sit in the same traffic in our electric car for an hour, each way to work? I could see traffic a being a lot better with fully autonomou
by kilroy123 9y ago
I agree. So we'll just sit in the same traffic in our electric car for an hour, each way to work?
I could see traffic a being a lot better with fully autonomous cars. Still, public transportation and more bike lanes seem like a much better investment and way to go.
- awjr 9y agoI'd be surprised if private autonomous cars will be allowed into cities, whereas public ride share autonomous mini-buses with dynamic routing AI will be the way forward.
- jklinger410 9y agoPrepare to be surprised
- Brakenshire 9y agoThere are already congestion charging schemes. I doubt it will ever get to a ban (and you can wouldn't want that) but I think it will be expensive. You could actually just charge a flat fee for road space, so a bus carrying 70 people is 3 times as long as a car, so only pays 3 times more. And maybe a separate charge of minimum standard to discourage nitrogen or particulate air pollution.
- awjr 9y agoI suspect that the move to EV will eventually create a revenue hole from reduced fuel taxes necessitating the move to road pricing. Politically unpalatable but I think a necessary step.
- edaemon 9y agoI think people like their privacy too much for that, as efficient as it may be. It seems more likely to me that private (or public single-occupant) autonomous cars will become smaller. Something like a Smart car size autonomous EV -- small enough to minimize costs, large enough to be useful for the single rider.
- awjr 9y agoA developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport — paraphrased from Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia http://newyork.thecityatlas.org/lifestyle/developed-area-rich-public-transport-ways-city/ http://newyork.thecityatlas.org/lifestyle/developed-area-ric... I think privacy is something that is a function of cost benefit. When road pricing becomes ubiquitous (as it will given the march towards EV), people will begin shift to public transport.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoPerhaps the solution for Americans will need to be different to that of the rest of the world.
- lj3 9y ago> So we'll just sit in the same traffic in our electric car for an hour, each way to work? On the bright side, electric cars don't pollute emissions or noise when idling. It's an incremental improvement, but one I happily embrace.
- vinay427 9y agoModern ICE vehicles with stop-start which is available even on mid-range vehicles don't pollute while idling, so then the problem with heavy traffic is limited to moving slowly, which electric vehicles still seem better at.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoCO2 causes climate change. Buying oil empowers authoritarian, barbaric regimes. EVs full speed ahead.
- apk-d 9y agoI'd be a bit scared to sit inside a public autonomous vehicle. I mean, how hard could it be to tamper with the thing before I get in? I'd be surprised if it didn't run WiFi, Bluetooth AND cellular at the same time. It'd be best if the software on it was open source, came with a nice tasty bug bounty and had an occasional audit from a third party secu- oh god it's never happening is it
- Dylan16807 9y agoI can understand worries about some kind of remote mass hacking, but in-person tampering with one vehicle? Just slit the brake line. In other words, not a new issue.
- rockinghigh 9y agoPeople could also tamper with non-autonomous transit like disabling the breaks.