Comment 118634

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted May 16, 2016 at 18:23:17 in reply to Comment 118633

I always find it bizarre when people claim that self-driving cars will make mass transit is obsolete. As you say, just because the car is self-driving doesn't mean it takes any less space on the road. It might actually take more space as shared cars will need to travel to the next customer.

Whichever way you look at it, putting 250 people into the space of one car which typically carries 1.1 people is going to be more efficient (each car takes about 35m of space on a street using the 3 second rule travelling at 50 kmh) which is about the length of one LRT!

What self-driving shared cars on demand would reduce is the need for car storage since, like taxis, they would be in use far more of the time than a private vehicle which spends 95% of its time parked. That means a lot of wasted space for parking at origins (home) and destinations (work, shops, entertainment).

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