How driverless cars will change how we spend our time
Obvious stuff:
- No parking space in dense areas
- Renting instead of owning
- Get a car fit for your activity
- Pooling
- Less accidents
- Time for other things in the car
Less obvious:
- Luxury pool cars where compartments are separated
- Sleeping cars for long distances
- Instead of fixed toll reserve a place on the road, prices like airline yield management
- People will live farther away from work
Not obvious:
- Premium on interesting meeting spots, theme 'bars'
- Meeting by putting cars door to door, never stepping out
- Agents will schedule your meetings, if someone is close you get a quick meet
- During sleep cars will minimize g-forces
- Many people will work from a car, car offices are the new thing
How it will go:
- Specific highways lanes during rush hour
- Specific highways lanes during all hours
- All highways lanes lanes during rush hour (no human-driven cars)
- All Highways lanes lanes all hours (no human-driven cars)
- Same cycle for other long distance roads
- Same cycle for the city, after that you can only drive as a human on closed circuits