Governments like self-driving cars because they can be forced to obey traffic signs and police directives. However, without revenue from tickets, governments will go to a per-mile model of taxation. You will start demanding the car take the cheapest route (and do it faster) rather than the best. Consequently, roads around hospitals, shopping malls and big commercial districts will become the most expensive. You won't have to pay for parking because you can just send the car home. But you'll still have to pay!
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(yawn) Being taxed per mile is old news for truckers. IFTA (International Fuel Tax Association) has been stealing from us for decades. Oregon charges per mile while in the state. So much so that a LOT of truck traffic detours through Washington State to avoid the road tax in Oregon.
Thieves are gonna steal. It's their nature.
I'm retired, for MUCH of my life I was car poor I live in Texas. RURAL texas. Going to the store for groceries and back was a fifty mile trip. A vehicle (or several) was a necessity. Since I moved to town I've seen what passes for public transportation. The horror..the horror. Spend half a day waiting for the bus to show up.
Auto-taxis sounds like the cat's meow to me.
IF, they are cheap enough. Cheaper than automobile ownership...AND as convenient as automobile ownership...and no more dangerous than driving a car...sounds like a winnah!
Nice thoughts. Yeah, everything driven by goverment(and the people who control them) to make them richer
i wonder who will be to blame when, and I do say when, the first pedestrian is squished by one of these " all seeing " cars !! Will it be the owners sitting in the back seat who have payed thousands of dollars to be able to watch a film while they travel ?? Will it be the government who put this vehicle onto our streets ?? I guess not ! More the pedestrian that will pay with his or her life and the family and friends that once knew them. I am sorry these cars will not be safe at 100 percent as indeed humans who drive their cars today. But at least with human drivers, in the event of an accident someone real can be held responsible !