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Uber, Chomp and 100 other modern innovations may have put the one-person-one-car idea in the dust bin.
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
Uber, Chomp and 100 other modern innovations may have put the one-person-one-car idea in the dust bin.
- vkou 5y agoYes, by flooding our cities with 'zero-person-one-car' traffic. (An Uber driver going to a pickup point is a car on the road that is, effectively, transporting exactly zero people.) From a fewer-cars-need-to-be-built perspective, it's an improvement. From a traffic/GHG emissions/more-roads-need-to-be-built perspective, it's a regression.
- lkbm 5y agoNot sure we'd need more roads. Nearly every road in my area could add a lane by simply eliminating street parking on one side. (Pickup/dropoff might be annoying with no parking lane, but honestly, they use the bike lane for that more often than the parking lane.)
- thehappypm 5y agoIf Uber is working properly the amount of time drivers are alone should be very small.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoAll good points. But not related to parking, which was the OP's point.
- 8note 5y agoRoads are already full of zero-person-one-car traffic, too. It's called on street parking
- vkou 5y agoA car in motion requires a lot more road space than a parked car. Two seconds of travel time in good road conditions, up to four seconds in bad.