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New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion
A study published today in Science Advances comparing pre- and post-rideshare boom traffic in San Fransisco found that the presence of Uber, Lyft, and similar companies has been an overall detriment for people who like getting where they're going quickly.
That businesses which pay people to have their vehicles on the road would, well, increase the number of cars blocking up the transit grid might appear to be a forgone, perhaps even obvious conclusion. But the body of writings on Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) as they're sometimes called is, surprisingly, mixed. Some studies found that Ubers and Lyfts were choking the streets of New York, Boston, and Chicago; a few claimed, conversely, that rideshares were alleviating traffic. Thus the team behind today's paper—composed of two University of Kentucky staffers and members of San Francisco's County Transportation Authority—had their work cut out for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @03:00PM (1 child)
the nice thing about self driving cars is that they are full of sensors like cameras that will have recorded what was going on at the time of the crash. Hence there will be no guessing in court, the court will be able to check.
the insurance companies have a certain amount of profit, the rest goes to payouts.
This will just reduce the number of payouts needed.
Hence the insurance companies could get by with lower premiums (to accompany the lower payouts), and yet still have the same profit.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday May 13 2019, @05:00PM
An if an indicator light starts flashing 1 second later than it should you have lost a significant amount of thinking and reaction time. The sensors do not record such things, they expect the software to be correct. Boeing can assure you that this is not always the case.
And I stated that I have seen no evidence that this is likely to happen. We will have to wait and see, but I contend that there will be no change in the cost of premiums, at least not in favour of the man in the street.