Well optimized, high volume autonomous taxi services could be revolutionary: imagine if cars being parked went from being the norm to being an rarity. Instead o

Well optimized, high volume autonomous taxi services could be revolutionary: imagine if cars being parked went from being the norm to being an rarity. Instead of 90% of cars in cities being parked, there could be drastically higher usage rates. The average apartment complex wouldn’t need to be 50% parking lot; cities wouldn’t be rows of parallel parking. I can’t find the reference, but a surprisingly high amount of useable space in densely populated areas in the US is parking lots. It wouldn’t happen overnight, but if cars were optimizing for time spent moving people, a city could be much more space efficient.