The Antiplanner is attending a conference on driverless cars near San Francisco this week. The first session, on Monday afternoon, dealt with the process of developing standards and best practices.
In 2009, when I was writing Gridlock, my main recommendation was that someone should convene a working group to write such standards. I suggested that the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials lead the process, but I should have known that a better group would be the Society of Automotive Engineers. In any case, I’m glad it is getting done.
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Today there will be a session on implications of driverless cars for regional planning. Since most regional planners seem stuck in the early twentieth century, it will be interesting to see what the presenters propose.
Or, will a new ownership paradigm emerge in which people don’t own cars, but rather buy transportation services by the mile from fleet companies at the time of use, thereby reducing travel demand through this pay-per-use model?Or will this new technology just substitute for the old technology with no change in travel behavior?
I saw hints of this in San Diego a couple weeks ago. Little electric fleet cars waiting to be rented for a short period of time will likely change the built environment and land use. I suspect it may reduce travel demand by trip chaining.
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A majority of Americans will continue to drive, and be wary and be skeptical of any “government” control – after all the government is forcing unworkable transit, and infill housing on the public. Who would choose to give control to their car, or government “standardized” telemetry. The next question would be why would I buy a high end car to give up driving control? The solution is to decentralize, and move away from the central planning model.
I’d never trust government regulators to manage a car that I’m in. It’s the same when I fly on a commercial airliner. I insist on sitting up front in the cockpit and supervising the pilots set up the autopilot to my liking. I’ve even had to take over the controls a couple of times when I felt they weren’t flying it as well as I could have.