"Self-driving cars" is a silly idea that only gullible people believe will be a panacea. We still have morning and afternoon rushes when people go to and from work, and self-driving cars will solve nothing about that. Self-driving cars take up as much space as regular cars, you still have to park them
somewhere when they're not in use, and our road capacity will still be the limiting factor.
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Originally Posted by SebC
Unless it drives home or out of downtown and parks. Also downtown parking is deliberately constrained. The city could allow more parking downtown if it wanted to (albeit it might take another boom for the required construction to occur).
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This is precisely why it's preposterous to think self-driving cars will appreciably improve traffic. "Unless it drives home or out of downtown and parks" itself? Congrats, you doubled the traffic as self-driving cars bring their owners to work and drive themselves home, and then do the same thing in the afternoon to fetch their owners and bring them home.
Parking downtown is deliberately constrained because our road network is constrained. It's about encouraging people to take another mode of transportation because we can't afford to keep expanding our roads to accommodate more and more vehicular traffic. It takes up too much physical space and it costs a fortune.