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- Self-driving cars will still need to park at off-peak times. Unless they just keep driving in circles. "they can be parked at much greater distances (10+ mil
by GuiA 13y ago
- Self-driving cars will still need to park at off-peak times. Unless they just keep driving in circles.
"they can be parked at much greater distances (10+ miles) from where we spend time, in much denser structures than today"
- Having your car park 10 miles away from you after every trip adds some forty miles of travel per commute. That's forty miles of fuel and forty miles of maintenance, every day.
Only if we map 1 car to 1 person. Of course that'd be completely unoptimized - people wouldn't own car, but rather have a "subscription" where they can get a car dispatched at any time (à la Uber). Cars would only park 10 miles away at truly off peak hours; the rest of the time they'd go to service some other customer.
- I'm also not thrilled about the prospect of already-dense cities shrinking streets to one lane. We call them concrete jungles now- can you imagine if all the roads were only 15 feet across? Goodbye, sky.
As the previous poster said, the extra space would go to sidewalks. Outside patios, trees, grass, parks... the things we could do would be amazing. Some older European cities from pre-car eras are built like that, and it's wonderful.
- sliverstorm 13y agoOnly if we map 1 car to 1 person Please read my parent. He said: If the model is that we own our self-driving cars it may be that they can be parked at much greater distances (10+ miles) That's what I was replying to. Some older European cities from pre-car eras are built like that, and it's wonderful. And a fair number of pre-automobile European cities are built with tiny streets. Hence, part of why micro-cars are so popular in Europe.
- Xylakant 13y ago> And a fair number of pre-automobile European cities are built with tiny streets. Hence, part of why micro-cars are so popular in Europe. Fuel in europe costs about as much in euro per liter as it costs in USD/gallon. Well, that's a bit exaggerated but last week I paid ~ 1,50 EUR per liter, so a fuel efficient micro car does not only help you navigate narrow streets but also saves quite some money.