Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Suburban Solution
 
  • Locked thread
via
Dec 14, 2013

FCKGW posted:



autonomous driving will change car ownership, but it does nothing to reduce the amount of cars on the road. you still have 2 people driving to work or running errands and burning the same amount of fuel to do it, just in someone else's car (or your own while you jack off behind the wheel).

I think autonomous vehicles (especially for-hire ones like Uber, which add wasted miles and idling) have the potential to actually worsen traffic here in Los Angeles. If the cost of a car trip goes down, and they don't have to drive the thing personally, people are apt to suffer even longer transit times for the privilege of avoiding public transport. They promise they'll all be synced up perfectly like Minority Report, but I think it'll be the better part of a hundred years before enough cars are autonomous to accomplish that.

* # ¿ Dec 19, 2016 07:52
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 10, 2024 16:57
  • Quote
  • Locked thread
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Suburban Solution