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This also implies that some nontrivial amount of the driving on roads will be cars with no humans in them, which may also be worse than the status quo.

• dpkirchner 3y ago
  It's possible. I wonder if we would see as many idle/empty self-driving cars as we do idle/empty human-driven cabs and Ubers/etc. I could see a self-driving system being a lot more efficient because it doesn't have to keep a car on the road for a driver's entire shift.
  • Ekaros 3y ago
    I think we will see more. If just keeping them running circles around blocks with most expected demand is nearly same cost it will happen. Specially if they are EVs with automatic charging.
    • JohnFen 3y ago
      Damn. I never thought of SDCs as being particularly dystopic, but this would be squarely in that area.