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RE: Technological Convergence: Disruption Crosses Many Industries
Talking about unintended consequences. There is a good chance that road traffic will increase quite a bit. It will be all electric, very efficient and much safer but we will need a lot of infrastructure for it.
It will be better over all but land use might increase.
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Unless flying taxis take off (no pun intended).
Then traffic might actually be less.
It is going to be very interesting to see what happens over the next 15 years.
I really don't believe in widespread use of flying taxis - at least not in anything close to what is proposed today.
Autonomous personal transportation pods will disrupt the way we think about travel. Flying taxis is a rather old school concept.
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More lanes get added at least in part because humans are very inefficient drivers. Autonomous vehicles that are communicating with each other might use available road space far more efficiently.
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True. Autonomous cars can communicate with each other and use platooning to be more economical. And cars will be used more efficiently because they are not parked for 95% of the time. This will free up parking spaces in downtown. But traffic will increase because it is so convenient to use. Planes, trains, bikes and trams will be substituted by cars and there will probably a lot of businesses who will have mobile facilities (e.g. Amazon) constantly roaming the streets.
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