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Our Driverless Future
7 November 2016, 3:16 am

       _{That utopia looks something like this: fleets of autonomous vehicles—call them taxi bots—owned by companies like Uber and Google, able to be deployed on demand, that will eliminate, for the most part, the need for private car ownership. (Currently, most privately owned cars sit idle for most of the day, simply taking up space and depreciating in value.) Fewer privately owned vehicles will result in fewer cars on the road overall. With fewer cars will come fewer traffic jams and fewer accidents.}New York Review of Books

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Fewer privately owned vehicles will result in fewer cars on the road overall. With fewer cars will come fewer traffic jams and fewer accidents.

That doesn't make sense. With driverless cars people will still have to travel the same amount so there will be the same number of people travelling at any given time. In fact, if driverless cars make traveling by car cheaper than it is now, more people will use cars instead of mass transit like busses and trains. Therefore, fewer privately owned vehicles means fewer cars and fewer parking spaces, but the roads will be more congested than ever.