Driverless cars' effect on LCF
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It is easy to imagine scenatrios where traffic would increase .... and equally easy to imagine scenarios where it would be reduced. I just won't bother, because some peple live in bubbles with walls so thick, nothing penetrates.
One thing pretty much every rational and honest person realizes and rp[edicts is that when there are more driverless cars, traffic will travel more smoothly.
Anyone who had seen the huge snarl-ups at every exit on a highway because humans are too stupid to cooperate for a high=-speed merge understands this completely and immediately.
One thing pretty much every rational and honest person realizes and rp[edicts is that when there are more driverless cars, traffic will travel more smoothly.
Anyone who had seen the huge snarl-ups at every exit on a highway because humans are too stupid to cooperate for a high=-speed merge understands this completely and immediately.
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Yes and no. The cars themselves may be better at following closely and merging while maintaining constant speed, and using alternate routes to avoid local congestion, but if a subset of people now use subways into town because they hate driving, or avoid crowded malls because parking is a nightmare, they might go by driverless car more often in the future because the car will take on the stress, so it might get more congested. I-Like-To-Bike posted a link showing Uber pickups and dropoffs have led to curbside congestion in some places, so presumably cheaper, driverless Uber might be even worse.
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One could imagine once the technology comes to fruition, your Riderless car could be quite busy indeed, racking up more miles than the average Soccer Mom today. Oh, that reminds me.... don't forget to send the drone to soccer practice.... you wouldn't want the kids to think you're ignoring them would you?
I can't imagine anybody complaining about a couple extra trips without passengers. Of course, there are those lines at the deli drive-up of all those riderless cars picking up the kids lunches. But, it wouldn't do to not have it fresh. Perhaps it would be safer just to send the car to the deli midday before the kids lunch hour
I suppose it would be more efficient to just buy a driverless car for every family member, but you're saving so much by just sending the one family car around town in riderless mode.
I can't imagine anybody complaining about a couple extra trips without passengers. Of course, there are those lines at the deli drive-up of all those riderless cars picking up the kids lunches. But, it wouldn't do to not have it fresh. Perhaps it would be safer just to send the car to the deli midday before the kids lunch hour
I suppose it would be more efficient to just buy a driverless car for every family member, but you're saving so much by just sending the one family car around town in riderless mode.
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Yes and no. The cars themselves may be better at following closely and merging while maintaining constant speed, and using alternate routes to avoid local congestion, but if a subset of people now use subways into town because they hate driving, or avoid crowded malls because parking is a nightmare, they might go by driverless car more often in the future because the car will take on the stress, so it might get more congested. I-Like-To-Bike posted a link showing Uber pickups and dropoffs have led to curbside congestion in some places, so presumably cheaper, driverless Uber might be even worse.
Seems a lot more likely that a small driverless car Operated By The Grocery Service will make neighborhood deliveries (or drones will---I mean, this is already happening in some places, it isn't a dream of the future--I have read articles about pilot programs) which will limit traffic somewhat.
Shopping will be done online, deliveries will be arranged by the stores via road-going or flying drones---people are Not eager to drive morte, and won't need to drive more, and the foolish fantasies about cars going shopping ... that is stuff invented by peple grasping at straws.
Hey, folks ... Everything is going to change. And the stuff that works will be kept and the stuff that doesn't will get axed. Same as it ever was.
Some people have no grasp of the passage of history. hundreds of years from now, we will be seen as living in the dawn of the automotive age. The first motorized carts from 1896 won't bee seen as a lot different form the latest Lexus with all the driver aids and all that.
Hundreds of years from now if there are cars they will All be robot-driven because obviously a computer can do it a Lot better than any human (we have been happy with 30-40 thousands highway deaths a year since about 1960 ... and almost all were driver error.) Pretty sure the internal combustion engine will have been long dead, and quite possibly everything will be maglev or some propulsion system we cannot even imagine.
And here we have to wade through people saying effectively, "The horse and buggy were too far advanced ... and since then everything has gotten worse!"
I can tell you this---if we every have anything approaching a "perfect World" it won't be because of the transportation modalities ... it will be because people decided to place emphasis on personal growth and development instead of material wealth and acquisition.
Nothing wrong with being rich, but rich and greedy is a bad combination. If people were honest, caring tolerant ... if "Virtue" became a word with a serious, not a comical meaning ... if "Being good' actually meant something, and "being rich," "being popular," "being famous" no longer excused the worst sort of human behavior ... then the rest of the crap would be easy to fix.
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For LCF, the only benefit of driverless cars is to reduce land-waste on parking lots and pavements so that destinations will be closer together and thus easier to walk/bike between. Obviously we are stuck in a situation where no one wants to give up driving because it is inconvenient to LCF, so infrastructure continues to be maintained for the sake of driving convenience where ubiquitous driving is assumed. Driverless cars have the potential to reduce the number of cars per capita if they are used properly, but obviously the problem happens when people insist that they have the right to use them in whatever way they please and how dare anyone tell them that their way is 'incorrect?!?!'
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One thing pretty much every rational and honest person realizes and rp[edicts is that when there are more driverless cars, traffic will travel more smoothly.
Anyone who had seen the huge snarl-ups at every exit on a highway because humans are too stupid to cooperate for a high=-speed merge understands this completely and immediately.
Anyone who had seen the huge snarl-ups at every exit on a highway because humans are too stupid to cooperate for a high=-speed merge understands this completely and immediately.
So for the next 50+ years, there will always be those few drivers on the road that aren't going driverless for one reason or another. We've had "hot rods" since the inception of automobiles. Are people going that up to ride in drones? And adding even a few drivers into the mix will mean all the drones will have to obey more or less the same rules as drivers obey today.
Will we be able to hot-rod our drones/driverless cars?
One could imagine vehicles going into train/convoy mode with vehicles driving inches from the bumper in front. Cooperatively allowing cars to peel out of the convoy, and merge in. Brake commands being instantly relayed to all vehicles in the convoy.
So, in theory, one could have perfect traffic flow... but that will also mean that software will have to be shared between the half dozen manufacturers, and everything will have to work together. What happens when that one drone on the road has a glich? Perhaps simply it is running an obsolete computer and chokes with a new upgrade?
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All good stuff.
But ... all the airplanes are made by different companies and they all work in all the air traffic systems anywhere in the world. And when an airplane messes up Everyone notices.
AI would have to be stupider than an amoeba to no t be able to manage traffic and reduce deaths from where we are now. Now ... people literally drive into the car ahead in stop-and-go traffic because they cannot keep focused for fifteen seconds.
hard Not to beat that.
As for the hot rodders .... Rush has a tune which I have never fully listened to called "Little Red Barchetta" about a guy in a 1950s Ferrari trying to illegally drive his own car, and then racing across the countryside trying to outrun the flying police drones.
But I expect people will give up driving pretty readily ... give them a computer game and a Facebook feed and a video channel and they won't remember they are in a car.
Also ... most driving for most people is a miserable battle with rush-hour traffic.
I cannot tell you (but you know already) what it is like to pedal past long lines of drivers absolutely hating life---sitting in the climate-controlled cocoon in a padded seat, with a favorite beverage, a sound system rivaling what have at home, scowling and cursing, while outside it is 105 degrees or 35 and raining---and I am loving life.
I absoutely expect cars to link up in perfect drafting trains, automatically cycling themselves out when it is time to exit because every car everywhere withing many miles will know where every other car is and where it is headed. Computers will constantly calculate speeds to minimize braking and acceleration and to save fule and resources and maximize traffic flow.
And for sure, every car will immediately recognize any car-sized object in the road and not responding to control signals and All the cars everywhere around will report it and the crane-drone will fly in and lift it out of traffic and fly it to the detention center where its occupants will remain.
One sec ... https://www.ntd.tv/2018/01/20/woman-c...etrieve-phone/ Everybody hated these two "Jane, you ignorant ***"s for delaying the journey home.
People will look at drivers driving their own cars the way we would look at people driving a car onto the subway tracks: "You are delaying us all and endangering us all. You are insane and stupid and deserve to be put down."
But ... all the airplanes are made by different companies and they all work in all the air traffic systems anywhere in the world. And when an airplane messes up Everyone notices.
AI would have to be stupider than an amoeba to no t be able to manage traffic and reduce deaths from where we are now. Now ... people literally drive into the car ahead in stop-and-go traffic because they cannot keep focused for fifteen seconds.
hard Not to beat that.
As for the hot rodders .... Rush has a tune which I have never fully listened to called "Little Red Barchetta" about a guy in a 1950s Ferrari trying to illegally drive his own car, and then racing across the countryside trying to outrun the flying police drones.
But I expect people will give up driving pretty readily ... give them a computer game and a Facebook feed and a video channel and they won't remember they are in a car.
Also ... most driving for most people is a miserable battle with rush-hour traffic.
I cannot tell you (but you know already) what it is like to pedal past long lines of drivers absolutely hating life---sitting in the climate-controlled cocoon in a padded seat, with a favorite beverage, a sound system rivaling what have at home, scowling and cursing, while outside it is 105 degrees or 35 and raining---and I am loving life.
I absoutely expect cars to link up in perfect drafting trains, automatically cycling themselves out when it is time to exit because every car everywhere withing many miles will know where every other car is and where it is headed. Computers will constantly calculate speeds to minimize braking and acceleration and to save fule and resources and maximize traffic flow.
And for sure, every car will immediately recognize any car-sized object in the road and not responding to control signals and All the cars everywhere around will report it and the crane-drone will fly in and lift it out of traffic and fly it to the detention center where its occupants will remain.
One sec ... https://www.ntd.tv/2018/01/20/woman-c...etrieve-phone/ Everybody hated these two "Jane, you ignorant ***"s for delaying the journey home.
People will look at drivers driving their own cars the way we would look at people driving a car onto the subway tracks: "You are delaying us all and endangering us all. You are insane and stupid and deserve to be put down."
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All good stuff.
But ... all the airplanes are made by different companies and they all work in all the air traffic systems anywhere in the world. And when an airplane messes up Everyone notices.
AI would have to be stupider than an amoeba to no t be able to manage traffic and reduce deaths from where we are now. Now ... people literally drive into the car ahead in stop-and-go traffic because they cannot keep focused for fifteen seconds.
hard Not to beat that.
As for the hot rodders .... Rush has a tune which I have never fully listened to called "Little Red Barchetta" about a guy in a 1950s Ferrari trying to illegally drive his own car, and then racing across the countryside trying to outrun the flying police drones.
But I expect people will give up driving pretty readily ... give them a computer game and a Facebook feed and a video channel and they won't remember they are in a car.
Also ... most driving for most people is a miserable battle with rush-hour traffic.
I cannot tell you (but you know already) what it is like to pedal past long lines of drivers absolutely hating life---sitting in the climate-controlled cocoon in a padded seat, with a favorite beverage, a sound system rivaling what have at home, scowling and cursing, while outside it is 105 degrees or 35 and raining---and I am loving life.
I absoutely expect cars to link up in perfect drafting trains, automatically cycling themselves out when it is time to exit because every car everywhere withing many miles will know where every other car is and where it is headed. Computers will constantly calculate speeds to minimize braking and acceleration and to save fule and resources and maximize traffic flow.
And for sure, every car will immediately recognize any car-sized object in the road and not responding to control signals and All the cars everywhere around will report it and the crane-drone will fly in and lift it out of traffic and fly it to the detention center where its occupants will remain.
One sec ... Woman Creates Rush-Hour Nightmare, Shutting Down Subway to Retrieve Phone | NTD.TV Everybody hated these two "Jane, you ignorant ***"s for delaying the journey home.
People will look at drivers driving their own cars the way we would look at people driving a car onto the subway tracks: "You are delaying us all and endangering us all. You are insane and stupid and deserve to be put down."
But ... all the airplanes are made by different companies and they all work in all the air traffic systems anywhere in the world. And when an airplane messes up Everyone notices.
AI would have to be stupider than an amoeba to no t be able to manage traffic and reduce deaths from where we are now. Now ... people literally drive into the car ahead in stop-and-go traffic because they cannot keep focused for fifteen seconds.
hard Not to beat that.
As for the hot rodders .... Rush has a tune which I have never fully listened to called "Little Red Barchetta" about a guy in a 1950s Ferrari trying to illegally drive his own car, and then racing across the countryside trying to outrun the flying police drones.
But I expect people will give up driving pretty readily ... give them a computer game and a Facebook feed and a video channel and they won't remember they are in a car.
Also ... most driving for most people is a miserable battle with rush-hour traffic.
I cannot tell you (but you know already) what it is like to pedal past long lines of drivers absolutely hating life---sitting in the climate-controlled cocoon in a padded seat, with a favorite beverage, a sound system rivaling what have at home, scowling and cursing, while outside it is 105 degrees or 35 and raining---and I am loving life.
I absoutely expect cars to link up in perfect drafting trains, automatically cycling themselves out when it is time to exit because every car everywhere withing many miles will know where every other car is and where it is headed. Computers will constantly calculate speeds to minimize braking and acceleration and to save fule and resources and maximize traffic flow.
And for sure, every car will immediately recognize any car-sized object in the road and not responding to control signals and All the cars everywhere around will report it and the crane-drone will fly in and lift it out of traffic and fly it to the detention center where its occupants will remain.
One sec ... Woman Creates Rush-Hour Nightmare, Shutting Down Subway to Retrieve Phone | NTD.TV Everybody hated these two "Jane, you ignorant ***"s for delaying the journey home.
People will look at drivers driving their own cars the way we would look at people driving a car onto the subway tracks: "You are delaying us all and endangering us all. You are insane and stupid and deserve to be put down."
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As for the hot rodders .... Rush has a tune which I have never fully listened to called "Little Red Barchetta" about a guy in a 1950s Ferrari trying to illegally drive his own car, and then racing across the countryside trying to outrun the flying police drones.
But I expect people will give up driving pretty readily ... give them a computer game and a Facebook feed and a video channel and they won't remember they are in a car.
...
I absoutely expect cars to link up in perfect drafting trains, automatically cycling themselves out when it is time to exit because every car everywhere withing many miles will know where every other car is and where it is headed. Computers will constantly calculate speeds to minimize braking and acceleration and to save fule and resources and maximize traffic flow.
But I expect people will give up driving pretty readily ... give them a computer game and a Facebook feed and a video channel and they won't remember they are in a car.
...
I absoutely expect cars to link up in perfect drafting trains, automatically cycling themselves out when it is time to exit because every car everywhere withing many miles will know where every other car is and where it is headed. Computers will constantly calculate speeds to minimize braking and acceleration and to save fule and resources and maximize traffic flow.
Heck, we even microchip our dogs... (so the dog pound can catch the dog owners).
Yet, a good chunk of the population has decided that would be the ultimate evil to chip the population (which no doubt would have already been hacked and we'd be implanting chip 2.0 and chip 3.0 by now).
So... you don't think there will be at least a few people driving their F-350 pickups with gun racks behind the seat that just won't go for this whole track everyone everywhere thing?
And, if a BMW can't figure out how to safely pass a bicycle on the road... surely those F-350 drivers will have figured out how to save a few seconds on their commute, pushing through roads that Johnny Cab won't go on, gunning through a few stale yellows, etc.
Actually, if auto-driving comes to pass, then traffic lights would be unnecessary... more or less.
The other thing we'll have to come to grips with is whether the vehicles should have both manual and auto mode. Again, back to the pickups, there is a fair amount of driving around the farm that just won't be convenient to pre-program in. It might be nice to set the pickup on autopilot when one is loading hay, but that may well be on the bottom of the list for the Google programmers. But, cutting across the hay field trying not to dump too many bales... hitting that ditch just right? Off-Roading... Will we see Johnny Cab Monster Trucks?
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The other thing we'll have to come to grips with is whether the vehicles should have both manual and auto mode. Again, back to the pickups, there is a fair amount of driving around the farm that just won't be convenient to pre-program in. It might be nice to set the pickup on autopilot when one is loading hay, but that may well be on the bottom of the list for the Google programmers. But, cutting across the hay field trying not to dump too many bales... hitting that ditch just right? Off-Roading... Will we see Johnny Cab Monster Trucks?
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As I keep saying ... (maybe no one is listening) .... we have gone from eating raw meat, roots, and insects, to walking on the freaking MOON .... Yes, there are a Lot of situations which will make advancing AI cars more complicated.
Do you think the first people who bought bicycles and realized how few roads there were just quit? No, they got roads built ... which is why cars suddenly became practical.
Seriously, how vast was the shift from riding on the backs of animals to traveling on independent motorized vehicles? When roads were often impassible for wagons, let alone cars?
People keep coming up with pebbles on the path and saying "Let's see you climb This mountain."
We Drove a Car On the Moon. So, obviously, there is no way to solve any technical problem with AI cars. Just cannot be done.
Do you think the first people who bought bicycles and realized how few roads there were just quit? No, they got roads built ... which is why cars suddenly became practical.
Seriously, how vast was the shift from riding on the backs of animals to traveling on independent motorized vehicles? When roads were often impassible for wagons, let alone cars?
People keep coming up with pebbles on the path and saying "Let's see you climb This mountain."
We Drove a Car On the Moon. So, obviously, there is no way to solve any technical problem with AI cars. Just cannot be done.
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Good point on how quickly technology has been changing. It wasn't long ago that all phones had to be plugged into the wall. And, then not long before that when one had "party lines". Pick up the phone, and if someone else was talking, hang up and wait a bit. I wonder how many teenagers today could imagine not only having to share their phones with the whole family, but also sharing their phones with the neighbors (who could also listen in if they were so inclined). And, only being able to pull the phone to the end of the wire.
Things will change with cars... not overnight, but soon enough.
As far as roads... Inner city Italian roads are great.
Cities were built small and compact for many reasons, including being easier to defend and build walls around. Roads were never straight, and never wide enough. And the Italians never quite figured out one-way roads (at least when I was there), so there would always be cars going in different directions on roads barely wide enough for a smart car (or a Fiat 500/126 at the time)... but often with a car going one direction and a small truck going the other direction.
They had sidewalks... which were more for parking than walking
Perhaps technology will at least tell them not to enter a narrow street when a car is coming around the corner from the opposite direction.
But, then again, what would an Italian be without a horn, and a few choice words?
Anyway, I wonder if the roads were designed more for walking and handcarts... and then cars took over.
Things will change with cars... not overnight, but soon enough.
As far as roads... Inner city Italian roads are great.
Cities were built small and compact for many reasons, including being easier to defend and build walls around. Roads were never straight, and never wide enough. And the Italians never quite figured out one-way roads (at least when I was there), so there would always be cars going in different directions on roads barely wide enough for a smart car (or a Fiat 500/126 at the time)... but often with a car going one direction and a small truck going the other direction.
They had sidewalks... which were more for parking than walking
Perhaps technology will at least tell them not to enter a narrow street when a car is coming around the corner from the opposite direction.
But, then again, what would an Italian be without a horn, and a few choice words?
Anyway, I wonder if the roads were designed more for walking and handcarts... and then cars took over.
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The fact is that driving cars on the moon did not even require a computer at all, much less AI capable of a reasonable response to a large variety of conditions and the sensors necessary to accurately model the environment. The cars we drove on the moon were not particularly complex to develop. The hard part was getting them there, not driving them.
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A common fallacy in human reasoning is to assume that if we can do certain things that seem amazing by standards of the past, that we'll ultimately do all of the seemingly impossible things we face with ease. It just doesn't work that way. ...
The cars we drove on the moon were not particularly complex to develop. The hard part was getting them there, not driving them.
The cars we drove on the moon were not particularly complex to develop. The hard part was getting them there, not driving them.
What is amazing by standards of the past and what is seemingly impossible are two very different things. AVs may indeed seem amazing by standards of the past, but they are not in this day and age seemingly impossible. They are not only possible but already in in existence. In this case technological advances in the past are indeed instructive regarding what we might reasonably expect for improvements in this extant technology.
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Idk how P&R this topic would be considered within an LCF thread, but when you say that there are costs that people should be accountable for, without also saying that they should reduce the thing that is causing the costs, you're basically saying that it's ok to pay to pollute if you want to. Paying to pollute might work for something like littering, where there are people happy to take your money to clean up after you, but in the bigger picture of land-use, sprawl, environment/climate, etc. there's no solution that can be bought because the solution involves calming, not exciting, economic activity.
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The answer is: Driverless cars are cars, therefore, by the definition of this court, there is no LCF.
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But driverless cars will likely change the way people/passengers interact with destinations, which could translate into more convenience for LCF as well, e.g. less parking lots and more destinations closer to each other. Also better sidewalks and bike paths for people to use when they aren't riding in the car.
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i simply do not see any change in the popularity of transport cycling unless towns and cities are completely redesigned ... except for e-bikes.
All it would take is a person who was considering it to read about having to wring ones socks out four times during the day, and that person would choose the car.
All it would take is a person who was considering it to read about having to wring ones socks out four times during the day, and that person would choose the car.
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But driverless cars will likely change the way people/passengers interact with destinations, which could translate into more convenience for LCF as well, e.g. less parking lots and more destinations closer to each other. Also better sidewalks and bike paths for people to use when they aren't riding in the car.
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I wouldn't worry much. The corporations are placing their resources into self driving cars and they aren't interested in financing any competition. The cities and counties and state tend to cater to the voters interest and most of them don't seem all that interested because there isn't as much money in it. The came committees that decide where to plant trees and where to have parks and if you can live in the same zone where they have factories are still in charge and that isn't in a lot of danger of changing.
In the little community I live in about two or three years ago some of us petitioned the city to put in a bike lane, simple painted one for about 3 miles in the center of town. The store keepers threw a fit and because they were a big part of the tax base they got their way. Cannot disrupt on street parking.
This year the state has decided we need a center divider consisting of a raised island through 6 miles of the same area. The reasoning is because of Jay walking and wanting a safety zone. Hard on bikes because unless you can bunny hop you can only turn at an intersection. Same people complained but this time the state informed us that it didn't matter. We may have named the street but in fact it is a state highway connecting four cities and as such it's design is subject to state engineers. And we have seen Google cars mapping our highway. I haven't seen Google Bike yet.
In the little community I live in about two or three years ago some of us petitioned the city to put in a bike lane, simple painted one for about 3 miles in the center of town. The store keepers threw a fit and because they were a big part of the tax base they got their way. Cannot disrupt on street parking.
This year the state has decided we need a center divider consisting of a raised island through 6 miles of the same area. The reasoning is because of Jay walking and wanting a safety zone. Hard on bikes because unless you can bunny hop you can only turn at an intersection. Same people complained but this time the state informed us that it didn't matter. We may have named the street but in fact it is a state highway connecting four cities and as such it's design is subject to state engineers. And we have seen Google cars mapping our highway. I haven't seen Google Bike yet.
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I have noticed a concern by some that the new automated cars might be too expensive? I am not sure that is a real legitimate concern. Sure if the cars you are looking at are 20 to 35k a car like a Tesla may seem expensive. Then if you consider a new Ford, Chevy or Dodge 4x4 Pickup can easily cost 60K or more with all of the back up cameras, sound system, built in cell phone, voice activated radio and heated seats today. So it wouldn't be too out of line for someone to spend 50k for a self driving car of their own.
If companies would pop up for services that provided on demand car service they would surely be given fleet discounts. Their per unit cost would be less than the private fleet I would think. The longevity of each unit could reduce the cost as well, assuming they were well built. Accidents or the lack there of would reduce the medical cost to society as well.
Just as a thought they could easily be considered transit for the masses and given a share of the funding given to buses. That would reduce the cost of a ride to the point where they could be very competitive with multi person station to station transport.
With automation there is no reason for the city bus to be the benchmark of how people are served by transportation. Automated buses might give that form of mass transit a few extra years of life but if they ever come up with a system that provides the same level of service as the private auto or even the old horse and buggy I believe people would jump on the idea.
I once believe a sea cruise was too expensive for a vacation. But over the years they have been in my reach more than once and opened up a whole new experience of travel both domestic and internationally. It is a matter of perspective and a healthy economy I believe. That and what people consider important.
If companies would pop up for services that provided on demand car service they would surely be given fleet discounts. Their per unit cost would be less than the private fleet I would think. The longevity of each unit could reduce the cost as well, assuming they were well built. Accidents or the lack there of would reduce the medical cost to society as well.
Just as a thought they could easily be considered transit for the masses and given a share of the funding given to buses. That would reduce the cost of a ride to the point where they could be very competitive with multi person station to station transport.
With automation there is no reason for the city bus to be the benchmark of how people are served by transportation. Automated buses might give that form of mass transit a few extra years of life but if they ever come up with a system that provides the same level of service as the private auto or even the old horse and buggy I believe people would jump on the idea.
I once believe a sea cruise was too expensive for a vacation. But over the years they have been in my reach more than once and opened up a whole new experience of travel both domestic and internationally. It is a matter of perspective and a healthy economy I believe. That and what people consider important.
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This year the state has decided we need a center divider consisting of a raised island through 6 miles of the same area. The reasoning is because of Jay walking and wanting a safety zone. Hard on bikes because unless you can bunny hop you can only turn at an intersection.
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The do-over cost is going to be astronomical. Not only R&D but legal costs, co-ordination between the many companies that are developing autonomous vehicles, and even the mapping that will be required. Hell, the costs of implementing cellular service that supports them is mind-boggling. Even G5 service will probably be inadequate for serving these systems that will have to communicate with each other. It might take G6 or G7 before we can swithch.
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That will not be necessary 100% of the time. It will smooth the flow of traffic. Not necessary for accident avoidance. And the specific means of intercommunication is not a settled mater and will almost certainly not involve the cell network. The information exchange is only to other cars within a few hundred meters. And it needs to be WAY faster than a cell phone can place a call. And “who” would the car call??
In sports cycling the old saying of “Pictures or it didn’t happen.” Has changed to,”Strava or it didn’t happen.” For those times when someone brags about how far or how fast they ride.