{"id":4627,"date":"2012-06-14T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2012-06-14T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T04:05:11","slug":"what-effect-will-self-driving-cars-have-on-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-effect-will-self-driving-cars-have-on-our-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"What Effect Will Self-Driving Cars Have On Our Cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0857_WhatEffectW1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Timothy B. Lee reflected on how a future where self-driving cars are the norm will affect our urban environment. He assumes that few people will &#8216;own&#8217; a car and that instead everybody would order self-driving cabs when and where they need them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No more parking spots. During peak hours all the cars will be on the road and during off-peak hours they can just pull over on the side of a street. Cars could double and triple park if they wanted to during times when nobody is using the roads.<\/li>\n<li>Higher road density. People will use the car that fits their size requirements so smaller cars will be a lot more prevalent. Since software gives better driving capabilities you could conceivably see two small self-driving cars journey side by side in the same lane.<\/li>\n<li>Scaled options. You might order a private self-driving car for $3, or agree to share one with somebody else for $2. A van with lots of other people might only cost $1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the implications this would have, including why being in a car will be a more pleasant experience, what it will mean for light rail, why there will be greater density around subway stations, what will happen to metro areas, and many more implications for a future that doesn&#8217;t seem too far off, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timothylee\/2012\/05\/21\/how-self-driving-cars-could-reshape-our-cities\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timothylee\/2012\/05\/21\/how-self-driving-cars-could-reshape-our-cities\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/05\/assorted-links-434.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy B. Lee reflected on how a future where self-driving cars are the norm will affect our urban environment. He assumes that few people will &#8216;own&#8217; a car and that instead everybody would order self-driving cabs when and where they need them: No more parking spots. During peak hours all the cars will be on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","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\/2012\/06\/060812_0857_WhatEffectW1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","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=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}