| ▲ | pyrolistical 4 days ago | |
> no more traffic How? There would be a huge increase in demand on the roads. You said it yourself, you’d have to build more roads. Unless you meant, no more [suffering] traffic, since you could just take a nap. The only way I see self driving to be a true win if it is so efficient that you can remove all the roads and they become part of the mass transit system. I would demand personal vehicles to pay a premium (cost plus) as they take up more space per person and add to infrastructure maintenance cost | ||
| ▲ | bluGill 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
There are a bunch of it depends. A large part of traffic is because someone messes up - accidents cause large delays, but even a small mistake in merging can slow down several others. Though human drivers regularly tailgate, if self driving cars maintain their proper 3 second following distance we could need a lot more space. (though perhaps self driving can safely maintain even a closer distance than humans do - I don't know) | ||
| ▲ | foobarian 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>> no more traffic > How? There would be no more traffic for the driver, who would be sleeping or watching Netflix | ||