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So we would have all of a rush hour's worth of cars on the road all the time?
by SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
So we would have all of a rush hour's worth of cars on the road all the time?
- xnx 3y agoIf freedom to move about freely is a desirable thing (think: making more jobs accessible to people without their own car without an hour-long multi-stage commute), this is a great outcome! A self-driving rush hour would also be very different from the ones we know today. No irritated, distracted, or road-raging drivers. Immediate and safe yielding to any pedestrian who used the road. As a regular urban cyclist during rush-hour, I would instantly trade a road full of distracted commuters juggling a cup of coffee and looking at their phone with self-driving cars. Further, surge pricing would discourage people from traveling at peak times. I know of no public transit system that has anything like surge pricing, which therefore means that the systems must be overbuilt for peak capacity.