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Part of the benefit (for me) of traveling by car is thst I can leave whenever I want. If I have to wait even 5 mins for my car to return to me, I'd consider tha

• mikepurvis 8y ago
  It's reasonable that you'd pay a premium for the privilege of being able to leave the second you're ready to go, compared with say: - Telling your car to do rideshare until 5pm, and then stand by until you're ready to go sometime between 5pm and 6pm. - Telling your car to go park far away and you'll give it twenty minute's notice when you're ready to go so that it can come get you. - Telling your car to park in a lot where it'll be boxed in and may take a few minutes of shuffling to get itself out. That said, I definitely can see an issue here where everyone's cars all descend on the downtown trying to perform curbside pickups right at 5pm. You could imagine similar things happening in any parking lot environment (mall, movie theatre, amusement park, etc), where the prime kiss-and-ride location ends up being a giant snarl of self driving cars all trying to save their owners a five minute walk across some asphalt.
  • ljf 8y ago
    I don't disagree, but that one time you have a sudden errand to run or an urgent need to get him,e and your car is off being driven by others... Obvs I'm thinking very much in an ownership mentality here, and in tbe future I'd just grab another random car and head home in that, but this is the mindset that we will have to overcome. (btw I never commute by car, only by bike ad public transport - so I'm just playing devil's advocate here)