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All will depend on whether people will still feel being chauffeured around in a self driving vehicle as 'travel time'. With few restrictions, you can design an
by PeterStuer 9y ago
All will depend on whether people will still feel being chauffeured around in a self driving vehicle as 'travel time'. With few restrictions, you can design an autonomous light truck to be like a true 'mobile home-office/bedroom/apartment'.
My personal prediction is that when we get to true AV's, it will be an ecological disaster, clogging roads orders of magnitude more than today.
- trevyn 9y agoThought experiment to help you improve your prediction power in general: Imagine that your prediction was wrong. What are some possibilities for why it was wrong?
- Simon_says 9y agoOo, that's a good one.
- usrusr 9y agoThe next step could be hooking up that self-driving mobile home to plumbing infrastructure on the company parking lot. Trailer park company town, here we come. I share your concerns though, that we will get stuck with an automobile version of the representational train cars of the steam age unless we find ways to channel autonomous driving into mode-independent transportation as a service. Uber as a transitional saviour? Never thought I would write this. Next requirement: replace/upgrade street parking with theftproof mooring clamps for parcel delivery containers that can then be much smaller than a car (sized as needed), and that could be self-driving or dropped/picked up by a "mothership" truck depending on urgency and/or technology. With that service in place, you could just summon transportation for your shopping bags, alleviating the trunk anxiety often associated with mode-independent transportation as a service.