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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
If the same people need to get to the same places at the same times as they are doing now, but driving themselves rather than the car driving them, how is that relieving congestion? It will be the same amount of vehicles on the road. The advocates of AV say their cars can drive better than humans and that because they can, more cars can be on the road at the same time at a higher rate of speed. They say one advantage of the AV tech is that each car knows where the other car is programmed to go, so all cars can anticipate other cars lane changes and speed changes. It all sounds great until there is a person driving himself in a non-AV vehicle. The movement of AV from the lab environment to the real world is going to hurt and kill people because no tech ever has behaved in the real world fault free as it did in the lab. Hurting and killing people will not go over well with the DOT and the trial lawyers.
Everyone thinks because their iPhone can take a picture and instantly send it across the world to another person, AV is just going to pop out in 5 years and be error free. That is apples and oranges.
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Once again, you don't think the technology will be good enough. I get it. Nothing to do but wait and see.
On the congestion point, even with your extreme example, there won't be a need for parking in the city center which would greatly alleviate congestion. Typically, 2 out of the 5 or six lanes of a downtown street are parking as are 2 of the 3 lanes of a side street. Imagine if they were open.