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> In that case you'd probably have a lot of empty trips, dropping the average occupancy of cars below 1 Not sure. Think about people driving others somewhere a

> In that case you'd probably have a lot of empty trips, dropping the average occupancy of cars below 1 Not sure. Think about people driving others somewhere and then have to drive back, e.g. their children, drunk people or a friend to the airport etc. In addition, to reduce the price, people could share a car dynamically - that would essentially be a mix between private and public transport. I think overall those points would probably rather reduce the number of rides. If anything, it would be the convenience that increases the rides - but at least that comes with a real benefit. And for congestion - it would probably be the total opposite. Look at cities and much percentage of the road is blocked by parking vehicles. Imagine 90% are gone. Roads gonna be bigger - that alone would be a huge pro.

UncleEntity 4y ago
> Not sure. Think about people driving others somewhere and then have to drive back, e.g. their children, drunk people or a friend to the airport etc. I think the point was people will own their own self driving car instead of sharing with the unwashed masses. Send it to go pickup the kids, get the groceries at the curb loading station, drive you home from the bar &etc. With good scheduling one car could run around all day picking up and dropping off the family members while running the errands in between. Of course this is a US centric view because people from other parts of the world are used to having efficient mass transit and not needing to own a car.