Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has allegedly told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.But Waymo has denied making such a claim, instead pointing ... Read more
Great idea centralizing the drop of stops and doing that every 200m or so in a grid, especially at places of interest. Now you could make the self driving cars a little bigger so they carry more people. You could even connect several cars.
At that point you can basically add a safety driver back in, with 20 ride sharers its still 95% self driving (compare that to Waymos that have uncertified safety drivers remoting from the Phillipines for 20% of the time).
Run them on a predictable, frequent schedule, so you dont need an app to call them.
Finally make them drive in a separate lane, on iron tracks and make them draw their energy from an overhead wire for maximum efficiency.
I think cities need many modes of transit. Starting with rail, moving to buses, bicycles and taxi cabs as well.
I’d like to see trams, with flat boarding platforms, being used to move more cargo. No reason someone with a dolly, and 8 boxes on it, can’t use public transit. This would cut the cost of hauling things around. I can imagine farmers transporting things to neighborhood farmers markets using some form of train/tram combo.
Cities should give up some car parking spots, and make them drop-off/pick-up taxi spots.
I don’t know about other places, but this has been happening here in Seattle.
Great idea centralizing the drop of stops and doing that every 200m or so in a grid, especially at places of interest. Now you could make the self driving cars a little bigger so they carry more people. You could even connect several cars. At that point you can basically add a safety driver back in, with 20 ride sharers its still 95% self driving (compare that to Waymos that have uncertified safety drivers remoting from the Phillipines for 20% of the time). Run them on a predictable, frequent schedule, so you dont need an app to call them.
Finally make them drive in a separate lane, on iron tracks and make them draw their energy from an overhead wire for maximum efficiency.
I think cities need many modes of transit. Starting with rail, moving to buses, bicycles and taxi cabs as well.
I’d like to see trams, with flat boarding platforms, being used to move more cargo. No reason someone with a dolly, and 8 boxes on it, can’t use public transit. This would cut the cost of hauling things around. I can imagine farmers transporting things to neighborhood farmers markets using some form of train/tram combo.