They will make it worse, as it makes it easier to move a vehicle around. When the price goes down, the usage goes up. And it's traffic whether the vehicle has a human being transported, it's circling waiting for a fare, or it's on the way back, empty, from taking a child to school

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earthnail 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You no longer need inner city parking, and people will be more willing to jump on public transport to skip traffic because you are not bound by the location of your own car anyway.

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gtowey 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are all those cars going to keep circling the block at night when nobody is driving?

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smelendez 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

They’ll do what taxis have always done when not in use — go to a lot or garage in a cheap part of town.

	▲	gtowey 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You think taxi companies are paying for enough parking spaces to store most of their fleet at once? A lot of those cars are stored on the street in front of the house of the driver. Also, the problem of storing something like 10k taxis pales in comparison to storing 100k+ cars. Some large cities have millions of cars. When was the last time you drove to a stadium concert or ball game? It takes hours to get something like 30k cars in and out of those parking lots when everyone is trying to use the same roads at the same time. It's absolute gridlock. So to implement anything like what you're talking about you'd need a network of garages and lots in the periphery of a large city, and the road infrastructure that can handle 100k cars driving from outside the city to your home all in time to whisk you away on your morning commute. For that kind of civic planning & engineering complexity you could just build public transportation based on trains, light rail and busses.
	▲	gs17 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For now, their Nashville test cars seem to be stored in a lot that's basically unused otherwise (I'm not even sure what building it belongs to). I drive by it occasionally. It's not the cheapest part of town, but it's probably pretty affordable.

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Scoundreller 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe do some overnight legs to other cities? Need some sleeper cars.

Covid taught us that we don’t really have enough space to park all aircraft: we expect them to “park” in the sky.

I wonder how downtimes will go when one of the inevitable duopoly players has a system downtime.

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triceratops 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's what congestion pricing is for.