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Think about Uber cars today. Their entire value proposition centres around them breaking parking laws in order to pick you up. I take Uber and Lyft in NYC mult
by senordevnyc 7y ago
Think about Uber cars today. Their entire value proposition centres around them breaking parking laws in order to pick you up.
I take Uber and Lyft in NYC multiple times per week. No one ever “parks”, they just pull up, you jump in, and off you go. Takes less than a minute in most cases, doesn’t block traffic, and I suspect it virtually never results in a ticket. Maybe if they sit there for 10 minutes or more, but that’s exceedingly rare. And even then, they’re not going to get a ticket outside a few ultra-congested areas of manhattan that make up a tiny fraction of this city. Even in most places in manhattan, you could sit in a running car in a no parking zone for hours without getting a ticket. I had a moving truck up on the curb on the Upper West Side in a no parking zone for hours and the NYPD rolled past several times without a glance.
Also, this is exactly how taxis all work too, btw, which seems to undermine your entire point.
- HereBeBeasties 7y agoUmm, that is is point though - with autonomy the cars presumably won't break the law and stop where it's technically illegal for 30s to pick you up. They will presumably need to find somewhere legal to park to do so.
- dkdklk 7y agoYou might want to look up the legal difference between parking, stopping, and standing. The vast majority of pickups in nyc at least are not illegal under any current law.
- 8ytecoder 7y agoThey block bike lanes all the times. It’s illegal to stand, stop or cruise in bike lanes.
- philwelch 7y agoAnecdotally, I've often had Ubers pick me up in specifically marked and designated passenger loading zones when and where that's been appropriate and necessary. And in principle it's really no different from picking up a friend if you're giving them a ride somewhere.
- senordevnyc 7y agoI’m not convinced it is illegal, and even if it is, no one cares.
- threeseed 7y agoThere are explicit laws in NYC to allow this behaviour which is understandable given the power of the taxi lobby and history of the city. Similar laws simply aren't present in most other cities. Stopping in the middle of the road to pick up passengers is illegal and drivers do it since the police are never there. Hence my point that Uber would never program this illegality into their self driving algorithm.