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I didn't realise autonomous vehicles make the roads wider.

• pmontra 7y ago
  Maybe TomMarius means that autonomous vehicles could negotiate intersections without stopping. No traffic lights required, only rules of precedence. It's going to be a slow procession but maybe the average speed would increase. I'm not sure how that would mix with pedestrian crossings. In some dense areas there would be a non stop flow of people walking across the street and cars wouldn't be able to move.
• TomMarius 7y ago
  Actually they do. There are streets full of parking empty cars, moving cars are at best a half. Plus reduction of number of driving cars to roughly one third.
• seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  The cars can work together to reduce riding distances, move faster in tandem when going in a green light, and so on. They virtually make the road much wider by eliminating human inefficiency in driving.