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How will driverless vehicles change our cities? : Comments

By Alan Davies, published 17/11/2017

Once the difficult transition period when human controlled vehicles are still common is over, a world of fully driverless vehicles should be a lot different from today.

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I wonder if Julia Gillard had a hand in this article. This is the thin edge of the wedge stuff.

With wistful thinking comment, such as this example:

*…From today's perspective, abolishing private ownership of vehicles would be extremely difficult but in my view it's essential to deliver on the potential benefits of driverless vehicles …*
Posted by diver dan, Friday, 17 November 2017 10:06:51 AM
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Shared vehicles eh? Good idea, we could all share yours! And just when you need to visit a doctor, attend a family emergency, drop the tin lids to school, bring home the family shopping?

I guess it'll be okay if we slip you a fin for the juice, when we return your personal ride?

Shared Autonomous vehicles will work if they are all company cars directed to ferry workers to their places of employment or the nearest urban rail link etc?

And no, that won't allow for closer spacing! Just safer spacing/matched optimal speeds and an ability to talk to autonomous traffic lights that respond to traffic density, rather than automatic timed changes.

Further, autonomous delivery vehicles will be limited to the hours between sunset and sunrise to ensure these things are not allowed to stuff up the commute and turn the whole thing into a massive, rolling grid lock, traffic jam!

Autonomous delivery, autonomous reception and autonomous forklift/conveyor belt unloading will largely eliminate tired human drivers operating, for hire, commercial freight delivery vehicles after dark!

Many more will work and or study from home and use rail links etc, to get where/when/if they need to go!

What's needed is more parking spaces/buildings and vehicles able to park themselves, then respond to a phone call to come and pick you up!

Further, zoned taxation could move the jobs from the cities to less dense regional and rural locations!

Why do we need cities anyway, when it's the cities and the mad hatter developers, who need us!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 17 November 2017 11:06:55 AM
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What? They are "undoubtedly coming" because this fellow, along with a rent-seeking and raving minority, are ramming them down our throats?

To the contrary, there are many doubts, most of which Davies admits.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 17 November 2017 11:10:13 AM
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Pushy late middle-age drivers will get no compliant response to their aggressive driving, and the surveillance will help them pull their head in.

All to the good really.
Posted by Rusty Catheter, Friday, 17 November 2017 1:21:57 PM
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We are being conditioned by the elites to live much more humble, & less affluent comfortable lives, & driverless cars are part of it. Get us out of our own cars, & into a public fleet of driverless cars, & then make these less & less available. We will be back to push bikes before you know it.

Small house blocks have moved us from the quarter acre, where we played back yard cricket, & had a veggie patch, to postage stamp sized lots, with no room to swing a cat, or highrise apartments with no privacy left & no connection with the earth at all.

I see lots of new roundabouts out in the sticks, where they are not needed. They take months to build, costing multi millions, for no improvement in the road or traffic flow. What our millions do get is a new bike lane, kilometres from anywhere, & of no current or even near future use.

One recent rebuilt intersection on Beenleigh/Beaudesert road Canungra turn off which took months to build, & many hundreds of truckloads of fill, actually reduced the facility for left turn cars, & produced nothing but a bike lane 60 metres long.

Either the planners are morons, [probably], or there is an ulterior motive in building bike lanes where bikes are currently never seen, & are unlikely to be seen in decades.

Watch out the younger generation, you are about to be jammed into highrise, with parking only for a bicycle, & the occasional usage of a driverless car. Even if you want to run away, you will only be able to take what you can carry on a bus.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 17 November 2017 1:53:07 PM
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Yeah Has, how does it go? Look Mum, tinned people!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 17 November 2017 5:27:11 PM
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