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> vastly increase passenger miles Ok, this might break the "peak car" but I'm fine with increasing passenger miles as long as passenger-CO2 and passenger-conge

• zantana 12y ago
  This why some people are so optimistic about Uber, seeing a future where there would be instant aws style provisioning of transportation, you could see car ownership going the way of physical server ownership, in that case. Taking it one step farther, you can see a melding of plugable container ship style passenger interiors which could be routed very efficiently like network packets, leading to tremendous efficiency which would make car driving/mass transit seem quaint.
• Tloewald 12y ago
  > I'm fine with increasing passenger miles as long as passenger-CO2 and passenger-congestion go down Yes but the idea that people will opt for a minibus over an individual taxi when the cost is trivial is optimistic. The marginal cost for a trip is gas + maintenance. The way to drive down emissions is to make people pay for them. One of the "advantages" of driverless is that passengers will likely become less sensitive to congestion (because they're reading or sleeping). It's again hard to image much effort going into reducing congestion if people are less likely to notice it. I don't see how this scenario reduces emissions or congestion.