ScreenXSurfer
Ain't no bitch who can do it like me
Overall the self-driving car could be another society changing revolution. I for one and super excited about this technology perfecting and changing society over the next few decades.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40441392/see-just-how-much-of-a-citys-land-is-used-for-parking-spaces
https://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/cars-cities-technologies
Some cities are already trying to design ways to make the ride-sharing transit as a primary form of transportation for city residents.
So far everything looks goo about all this.
So for the bad. I know there's a concern that self-driving cars are going to take away tons of jobs. My thoughts in the short term that will and won't happen. I assume due to safety regulations, a self-driving car is going to be monitored by an operator for years. I have to wonder what the economy transition will look like for the car industry. I imagine the ~6 million cars sold annually in the US is going to shrink as the ride share fleets come online. That will probably be the industry's largest customers. It's very likely going to cost jobs in the auto industry once sales start to decline. Same with auto-repair shops. The ride share fleets will either work on their cars in-house like dealerships do.
I also wonder what the new cost of transportations for Americans is going to be.
Right now they spend an average of 14% of their annual budget on transporation.
$3,000 on gas annually
~$900 on car insurance (wow American's mostly just get liability coverage?)
$225-$425/month on monthly payments.
It would be interesting to see how that changes and what ride share companies can come up with to become more acceptable for Americans to pay for a ridesharing subscription rather than all their combined transportation cost. I assume they'll have a 'rent' plan where the user can rent a vehicle for a certain length of time for various camping trips or cross country trips.
Anyway, just had to ramble a bit. This is an interesting piece of technology and I wonder how far it'll go in the future.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40441392/see-just-how-much-of-a-citys-land-is-used-for-parking-spaces
https://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/cars-cities-technologies
At the moment, cars spend around 95% of the time parked, and only 5% of the time in use. Huge swaths of cities, either in parking lots, garages, or street parking spaces, are used as storage for cars (while, at the same time, many cities struggle to find enough land to build housing to keep up with demand). "There's this huge space that's basically wasted," says Szell.
Some cities are already trying to design ways to make the ride-sharing transit as a primary form of transportation for city residents.
San Francisco planned to shift 10 percent of single-occupancy vehicle trips to transit and ride hailing. To do so, the city proposed partnering with the University of California Berkeley and various tech companies to work out ways to:
1) Provide incentives to shift people from their own cars into car sharing
2) Make these services more affordable
3) Eventually move to automated electric vehicles
So far everything looks goo about all this.
So for the bad. I know there's a concern that self-driving cars are going to take away tons of jobs. My thoughts in the short term that will and won't happen. I assume due to safety regulations, a self-driving car is going to be monitored by an operator for years. I have to wonder what the economy transition will look like for the car industry. I imagine the ~6 million cars sold annually in the US is going to shrink as the ride share fleets come online. That will probably be the industry's largest customers. It's very likely going to cost jobs in the auto industry once sales start to decline. Same with auto-repair shops. The ride share fleets will either work on their cars in-house like dealerships do.
I also wonder what the new cost of transportations for Americans is going to be.
Right now they spend an average of 14% of their annual budget on transporation.
$3,000 on gas annually
~$900 on car insurance (wow American's mostly just get liability coverage?)
$225-$425/month on monthly payments.
It would be interesting to see how that changes and what ride share companies can come up with to become more acceptable for Americans to pay for a ridesharing subscription rather than all their combined transportation cost. I assume they'll have a 'rent' plan where the user can rent a vehicle for a certain length of time for various camping trips or cross country trips.
Anyway, just had to ramble a bit. This is an interesting piece of technology and I wonder how far it'll go in the future.