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kleinbl00  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post:

veen has research that indicates that a carshare economy removes 80% of traffic from streets. No Hyperloop necessary.





veen  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Case studies vary trip generation rates, trip distribution patterns, network congestion

    levels, service area size, vehicle relocation strategies, and fleet size. Preliminary results

    indicate that each SAV can replace around eleven conventional vehicles, but adds up to

    10% more travel distance than comparable non-SAV trips, resulting in overall beneficial

    emissions impacts, once fleet-efficiency changes and embodied versus in-use emissions

    are assessed. Fagnant & Kockelman, 2009

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    TaxiBots combined with high-capacity public transport could remove 9 out of every 10 cars in a mid-sized European city. Even in the scenario that least reduces the number of cars (AutoVots without high-capacity public transport), nearly eight out of ten cars could be removed. UITP, 2015
goobster  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If that actually happens, that could lead to much safer roads for everyone, from drivers to pedestrians to bicyclists in L.A.

kleinbl00  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am a heeeeuuuge booster of everyone else in self-driving cars.

Cedar  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It would make for a boring Mad Max though ;)