Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets?

An anonymous reader writes: The Atlantic has a story with some video of a traffic simulator showing just how the roads can be jammed up by people looking for a place to park. (You can play with the simulator too.) This has been suspected for a long time by many traffic researchers and city planners, but the simulator shows just how quickly the roads jam up after just a few of the blocks fill up with parked cars. The good news is that autonomous cars don't need to park-- they just go give someone else a ride. They could change city life forever.

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Re:Err, no, that isn't how it works

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I love the implicit assumptions in your post that aren't even stated: (1) CARS R BAD MMKAY, and (2) this evil is so great that we need flat-out tyranny to get rid of it. The power to tax is the power to destroy. If people hate it, well they don't get a voice. Why? Dumbocracy is a failure because it occasionally results in outcomes that don't agree with your unstated assumptions.