It seems that most commenters here didn't read the article. The root of the problem is that the cost to use space in the street is zero everywhere, while the co

It seems that most commenters here didn't read the article. The root of the problem is that the cost to use space in the street is zero everywhere, while the cost to park off the street is (to some degree, usually) driven by demand. That is, high demand areas (downtown, near retail, etc.) have high parking fees buy they have NO fees to use the street. This doesn't make any sense, and it sets up an incentive to cruise over parking. This incentive exists today even without autonomous cars, the only difference is that "cruising" with a human driver always has the additional cost of a humans time. The fix presented in the article is properly pricing the use of the street.