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That puts a double burden on infrastructure. Every car trip becomes 2 trips - one to your house, then one to your destination. It's hard to imagine that winning
by JoeAltmaier 6y ago
That puts a double burden on infrastructure. Every car trip becomes 2 trips - one to your house, then one to your destination. It's hard to imagine that winning over car ownership, without some other powerful force involved.
- maratc 6y agoThat car can be Smart-sized: half as long. But imagine no parking space would be needed anymore.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoRoads are still roads though. And they get pretty full now. Imagine rush hour with twice the traffic.
- maratc 6y agoA massive robo-taxi company is well prepared to put several people going to a same place in a single taxi. I expect the full robo-traffic to actually be less than the traffic of vehicles occupied by owner alone.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoIt'll sure take lots of tricks like that to mitigate the huge downside. At some point it just becomes a bus route.