Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
In ten years time, all our traffic problems will disappear anyway
I mean, it's taken ten years for the council to even start discussing traffic with us, and probably only because we threaten to vote libdem. But this guy thinks that 90% of traffic will be gone by 2025 anyway because of self driving cars. That's another ten years and without all the hand wringing and accusations of beggar thy neighbour.
Tags for Forum Posts: self driving cars, traffic, uber
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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90% of privately-owned cars maybe.
But the same number of people ( probably more by 2025 ) will want to do the same number of journeys.
" Driverless cars do not need to park " - So when not in use, they just cruise around aimlessly ?
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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on
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They go pick up someone else and take them where they need to go.
If they are genuinely not needed (e.g. 3am) then they can drive to out-of-the-way places and park. And the space for parking will be lower, since they can park nose to tail and inches apart.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Look on the positive side. Jeremy Clarkson out of a job.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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We already have driverless trains (DLR) and the underground wants to go the same way as some metro systems overseas already have. But they're on dedicated tracks. Cars on the other hand use roads with other users. Personally don't see driverless cars as a significant disruptive technology in older cities, maybe more so in newer cities with wider 'boulevards' & grid patterns - maybe Milton Keynes?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Driverless cars can be much thinner than the monsters we park outside our houses now as they will not be driven by 2nd class maniacs.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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Hi John.
I've read transport predictions that there will be fewer cars on the road due to the efficiency of driverless, that journeys will cost around half that of the current taxi fare, that it's the existing car makers who will provide the service and that it will quickly become illegal for humans to drive.
I see a recent startup is working on 'pavement robots' to make local deliveries so wonder how soon it'll be before the abandoned sign:
'Equipped with no more than 2GB RAM'
Will presage finding a mugged delivery robot in Harringay Passage :)
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This is a genuine dilemma when planning for our built environment. Anything that's planned to last for more than a decade (or to take a decade to build...) should be taking this sort of technological disruption into account.
I'd love to hear from someone that knows whether this is in fact happening!
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