{"id":12780,"date":"2015-07-16T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2015-07-16T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:05:43","slug":"how-self-driving-cars-could-bankrupt-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/how-self-driving-cars-could-bankrupt-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"How Self-Driving Cars Could Bankrupt Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071615_1202_HowSelfDriv1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The era of the self-driving car is nigh and cities could suffer due to them writes Alex Davies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-Driving cars won&#8217;t break speeding, traffic light, parking or drunk driving laws.<\/li>\n<li>Cities make hundreds of millions of dollars from those violations. Everything from fines to towing fees go to city coffers.<\/li>\n<li>People will also probably buy fewer cars which means that cities won&#8217;t make as much money from car registrations.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not all doom and gloom. If there are fewer accidents then money will be saved from not having to treat victims.<\/li>\n<li>Increased productivity from people being able to do things like work in their car could also contribute to economic growth and thus tax income.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;ll be less pollution as cars will use fuel more efficiently, creating health savings.<\/li>\n<li>Cities will be able to re-allocate a whole lot of traffic cops to fighting crime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about other sources of revenues that cities could consider, and other implications of a self-driving future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/self-driving-cars-may-end-fines-fill-city-coffers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/self-driving-cars-may-end-fines-fill-city-coffers\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of the self-driving car is nigh and cities could suffer due to them writes Alex Davies: Self-Driving cars won&#8217;t break speeding, traffic light, parking or drunk driving laws. Cities make hundreds of millions of dollars from those violations. Everything from fines to towing fees go to city coffers. People will also probably buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071615_1202_HowSelfDriv1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12783,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}