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> Self-driving cars will make things way more efficient. Road capacity has a physical limit. Unlike data you cannot convert cars into light of various waveleng
by marcinzm 2y ago
> Self-driving cars will make things way more efficient.
Road capacity has a physical limit. Unlike data you cannot convert cars into light of various wavelengths to pack more into the same physical space. Well you can but that's called public transit. In other words, public transportation has a higher capacity per road/rail area than cars ever will. We don't live in the metaverse after all.
As a result more people using cars (self-driving or not) means you hit the road capacity much more often. That means more congestion and longer trips. Any efficiency you gain by going point-to-point is utterly lost in the increased congestion and traffic.
As the other person noted, European cities are much denser and have significantly less road area than US cities. Thus more cars means significantly less efficiency as you spend more time in traffic.
- ArtTimeInvestor 2y agoSo what do you expect? That cars will continue to be manually operated and that the number of cars on the road will go down due to better public transport?
- marcinzm 2y agoThat's an odd straw man. I'd appreciate you not put words in my mouth. You're claiming that self-driving cars are better than public transit and will replace public transit in Europe (assuming they were available). I'm merely saying they won't because that is an inferior solution. I said nothing about manual cars or the shift of manual to self-driving for the segment that does drive cars.