• jordanlund@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    5 months ago

    Yup, back when I had to go to an office I was paying $21 a day to park. 5 days a week.

    With an autonomous car I could have it drop me off, drive back home, then pick me up based on my cell phone location on demand.

    Yeah, I’d double my gas usage during the week, but I guarantee it would be less than $105.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      I’d double my gas usage during the week

      More likely power bill I’d think - I haven’t heard of anyone working on an autonomous gas powered car or even hybrid. Also a few states won’t even be allowing sales of gas cars in 11 years

      • Moneo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        5 months ago

        Double the wear n tear on the car, double the wear n tear on roads, double the traffic. yipeeeeee

    • NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      It wouldn’t have to go all the way home, just some safe free spot.

      If you have family/friends it could be helping them out all day.

      Or a robotaxi might suit better.

        • Grippler@feddit.dk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          Think of how well people treat public transport they all depend on…now that place is your car and people are alone and unsupervised. You’re going to spend a large amount of time and money keeping the car from being a trashed mess.

        • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          Yes, but you’d still have twice as many cars on the road at any point in time, grinding everything to a standstill.

          • Moneo@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            5 months ago

            Autonomous cars really will be a fucking nightmare for traffic and I don’t think people understand this. Traffic is one of the biggest reducers of car trips, it’s why induced demand is a thing. People avoid trips if they don’t want to deal with the traffic and people pay for expensive parking to avoid driving around looking for a cheap spot.

            Autonomous cars would enable so many trips that would otherwise be avoided. Don’t want to look for parking? Your car will do it. Don’t want to sit in traffic for 30 mins to get to the grocery store? You can watch youtube while your car drives you. Don’t want to take your kid to a friends house? The car will drive them.

            EVs are not going to solve climate change and autonomous cars are not going to fix traffic. These problems are only solved by reducing car dependency and the faster people suck it up and accept that the faster we actually start working on solutions instead of tech bro nonsense that only solves the problem of how to concentrate even more wealth in the 0.1%.