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If the cars can't park, then they're clogging up the roads and preventing them from being used as intended for transportation. I am fine with parking lots as l

• gpm 2y ago
  In fact I'd say that self driving cars will mean that it's important that parking is not more expensive than simply driving in circles. You can bet that companies will drive self driving cars in circles to store them while not in use if it's cheaper than parking, and that takes up both more space, and higher value space.
  • jakelazaroff 2y ago
    Perhaps there should be some sort of vacancy tax where the operators of driverless cars are charged for every mile they drive without a human passenger.
    • omnimus 2y ago
      Youve just invented a new job which is dummy human who is cheaper than parking lot who drives all day around city in otherwise empty cars.
  • Ajedi32 2y ago
    Just another unintended consequence of road use being free for its users, despite road space being a limited resource that's expensive to build and maintain. Congestion pricing is already a (crude, but still rather effective) way of solving that problem. A more perfect (though impractical to enforce) solution would be charging by the meter-second of lane space consumed, with rates varying over time and location depending on congestion. Under that pricing scheme, if driving in circles were still somehow cheaper than parking then cars could drive in circles to their heart's content without causing any issues.