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While driverless cars can help with parking w.r.t. city development, I don't think that will be too helpful as we already have issues with the capacity of roads
by king_jester 14y ago
While driverless cars can help with parking w.r.t. city development, I don't think that will be too helpful as we already have issues with the capacity of roads. We should be aiming to reduce the importance of roads for cars in city planning, and I'm not sure how driverless cars will help that. Rather, I could see it being worse if cities make mistakes and try to build more road capacity, making congestion worse as more cars fill the new road space.
- pash 14y agoDriverless cars should be a huge boon to the efficiency of moving cars along existing roads. There may be an awkward period during which both automated and human-driven cars are on the road at the same time, but by the time it's mostly robots out there, traffic will flow much better. Traffic congestion is caused mostly by human-led factors like route choice and poor cooperation (in merging, etc.) rather than merely the number of cars on the road.