Driverless Cars: How can we ensure they will reduce traffic?
In such a way that we will all benefit from this reduction
Great article tackling a very important problem in self driving cars future:
There’s a catch, however. Although a family’s driverless car can transport family members efficiently back and forth, the fact that one car is supporting more people would result in higher per-vehicle mileage. Although the average household of the future might own fewer cars, the remaining driverless car will be used 75 percent more frequently, accumulating an average of 20,406 annual miles per vehicle per year. The upside of this finding is that even if a single driverless vehicle were to rack up 75 percent more miles on average, the mileage for the entire household would still be lower than if two human-driven cars were in use.
Unless we have a way to measure traffic and optimize/adapt in real time, this could become a huge problem, as I mentioned before.
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