• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    It could reduce the need for individual cars by increasing car sharing.

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      1 year ago

      That’s Car Sharing, not autonomous vehicles, no? Car Sharing is a good thing, definitely, but we really need to get rid of cars. Not completely, but to a point where it’s not the default.

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        1 year ago

        With autonomous cars, you don’t need a driver to bring it to the next person who needs it. That’s a big limitation of current car sharing, it prevents a lot of possible sharing from happening as cars spend 95% of their lifetime parked. Indeed, we need less and smaller cars, and I think autonomous car would help with that by increasing sharing and usage time.

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      But you can do car sharing with any kind of car. In Germany there are cities that run a rent service for their citizens who only need a car occasionally.

      Obviously this only works in the context of a robust public transport infrastructure and in cities built for humans rather than cars, so that the need for a car becomes a rare occurrence.

      American cities don’t generally fit that description and until they do the type of car they use won’t change a thing, because it’s not addressing the core problem.