Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Inner cities are better served by trolleys/buses anyhow. Self-driving taxis would work best at the edges of a city, or to fill gaps between train stations in suburbs
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
How would self-driving taxis do this any better than taxis that already exist and aren’t relying on large tech corporations?
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Cheaper, safer and one extra seat.
We’re obviously not there yet but I haven’t heard a single good argument for why we wouldn’t be in the future.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I don’t think they’d do much better besides being safer, eventually. Just saying that’s the only place where they’d make sense to go.
leetnewb@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
If safer is a realistic outcome, perhaps things would further evolve. Ride share cars today are dual-use vehicles that typically carry driver + no passenger or driver + one passenger with the capacity for 3-5. If future autonomous ride share cars turn out to be dedicated to ride share, maybe most would end up being 3-wheel with just one or two seats. Shrinking the size of a substantial potion of cars on urban roads could be beneficial to road safety, power/carbon intensity, road capacity/density (which could also lead to more equitable road use for bikes and pedestrians).