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beefield: a self driving car doesn’t NEED to take up space in a crowded city. It can drive you to work, then you get out, then it can go drive itself to a less

• journalctl 7y ago
  Where... where does the car live? It has to take up space somewhere. And if you say “outside the city”, then you’ve just reinvented suburbs.
• acdha 7y ago
  That sounds like more vehicle miles in downtown areas which are already severely congested. A large part of the problem is that cars are the least spatially-efficient form of transportation: having them drive more miles at peak times isn’t going to work unless we see huge improvements elsewhere, which seems unlikely.
  • jdnenej 7y ago
    What could be a more realistic option is electric velomobiles (a recumbent bike with an outer shell) which have a capacity of one person and a few bags. You get the benefit of weather protection and convenient speed while being extremely safe and space efficient.
    • acdha 7y ago
      I think there’s a lot of room in the e-bike space but don’t forget transit even if it’s not cool enough to get VCs interested. If the city planners do their jobs competently few things beat a bus in a priority lane for getting a large number of people around a city quickly with low to no CO2 emissions.
      • magduf 7y ago
        >If the city planners do their jobs competently That's expecting way, way too much in America.