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How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) - Not Just Bikes (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I thought so too originally, but the linked video shows a few reasons why it wouldn't. Autonomous cars have the same space inefficiency per passenger (in some cases worse) as driven cars. They still need a place to charge, but that can't be only in non-congested areas because people wouldn't want to stand around waiting 12 minutes for their pickup. If they don't use parking they'd spend their day roaming around, causing traffic like 24/7 taxi drivers waiting for an order except taking up road space.

And watch with Elon Musk in government and schedule F employees, safety will be the nth priority behind profits for Tesla.