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>Congestion avoidance will speed traffic and save fuel too. Perhaps we live in different worlds, in my world self-driving cars will create more traffic jam, le

• loup-vaillant 13y ago
  Traffic jam: the infrastructure may eventually change. Have a first car drive to to a nearby train or subway station, and a second car to your destination from the train. In the meantime, you may have more traffic jam. Energy: when you don't need to own your car, you can use the best car for the job. A commuting car doesn't need to be able to carry 5 people around. It can be much smaller. Again, the transition period likely won't look good. Harsher economic times: this is good old technological employment, where productivity rises faster than demand. My 2 cents: self-driving cars will significantly contribute to technological unemployment, and that's good, provided we manage it well. An obvious measure would be to generalize a 32 hours work-week, over 4 days. It would mean less unemployment and less overwork. Workload will reduce anyway. We might as well share this reduction, instead of giving it all to the unemployed.
• maxerickson 13y ago
  You just bill people (more) for driving into a congested area. It would work just fine (as long as the rates were adaptable). But that is orthogonal to whether people will appreciate it.