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Title    Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking
Date    Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:46AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the unparktilect:-the-wheelbound dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/12/0633256

upstart writes:

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Stingy driverless cars will clog future streets instead of parking

It's a nightmarish vision of San Francisco's future, like something out of science fiction: streets full of driverless cars, crawling along implacably but at a snail's pace, snarling traffic and bringing the city to a standstill from the iconic Ferry Building to Union Square.

But according to Adam Millard-Ball, associate professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this scenario could come to pass simply as a result of rational behavior on the part of autonomous vehicle owners. Congestion pricing that imposes a fee or tax for driving in the downtown core could help prevent this future, but cities need to act fast, before self-driving cars are common, he argues.

Those conclusions emerge from an analysis published in the journal Transport Policy, in which Millard-Ball used game theory and a computer model of San Francisco traffic patterns to explore the effects of autonomous vehicles on parking. He found that the gridlock happens because self-driving cars don't need to park near a rider's destination – in fact, they don't need to park at all.

The autonomous vehicle parking problem (DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.01.003) (DX)


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Links

  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "Stingy driverless cars will clog future streets instead of parking" - https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/03/06/stingy-driverless-cars-will-clog-future-streets-instead-of-parking/
  3. "Adam Millard-Ball" - https://people.ucsc.edu/~adammb/
  4. "The autonomous vehicle parking problem" - https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoc--mss013119.php
  5. "DX" - https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.01.003
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=32265

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