Part 2 of Unveil - Uber-type ability to rent out your car

[Garlan Garner]

Maybe there will be a special edition interior just for renting--an interior that could be hosed down once in a while.

Yeah, with one of those cab barriers to keep people out of the front seat.

 

[deonb]

IMHO, is that autonomous driving will allow for an easy doubling of the carrying capacity of the existing infrastructure.

How? It will reduce parking infrastructure requirements but it will increase road infrastructure requirements.

Instead of people driving point to point just as much as they need, now you also have the driverless car going to its next fare, empty of a user. And then when it's done, it drives back to you. Those are new and increased uses of the road, not less.

 

[Garlan Garner]

How? It will reduce parking infrastructure requirements but it will increase road infrastructure requirements.

Instead of people driving point to point just as much as they need, now you also have the driverless car going to its next fare, empty of a user. And then when it's done, it drives back to you. Those are new and increased uses of the road, not less.

I think Autonomous technology will allow for more cars to exist on the road because they will be able to communicate with one another thereby allowing them to travel closer together.
For instance: if 20 cars are closely tailing one another 1 foot apart and the 1st car has to slow down....the information from the first car will get to the 20th car behind it in a matter of milliseconds and they will all slow down simultaneously. There will be no need to for fully autonomous cars to have to just be concerned with what the car in front of you is doing as AP does today.
Cars will be able to travel a foot apart in a 200 car line and each car will know exactly what the first car is doing almost instantly. As a matter of fact when you press a key down on a computer...the computer has completed the function you requested and has been sitting there waiting for 100,000,000,000 cycles before the key comes back up.

I watch the packets of Bluetooth and WIFI (using Wireshark) and noticed that my computer is doing NOTHING 99% of the time. Thats the speed that automobiles can now communicate miles apart. I can't wait to see a 3 mile train of cars moving at 90mph all braking at the same time. Its going to be amazing.

 

[JeffK]

I think Autonomous technology will allow for more cars to exist on the road because they will be able to communicate with one another thereby allowing them to travel closer together.
For instance: if 20 cars are closely tailing one another 1 foot apart and the 1st car has to slow down....the information from the first car will get to the 20th car behind it in a matter of milliseconds and they will all slow down simultaneously. There will be no need to for fully autonomous cars to have to just be concerned with what the car in front of you is doing as AP does today.
Cars will be able to travel a foot apart in a 200 car line and each car will know exactly what the first car is doing almost instantly. As a matter of fact when you press a key down on a computer...the computer has completed the function you requested and has been sitting there waiting for 100,000,000,000 cycles before the key comes back up.

I watch the packets of Bluetooth and WIFI (using Wireshark) and noticed that my computer is doing NOTHING 99% of the time. Thats the speed that automobiles can now communicate miles apart. I can't wait to see a 3 mile train of cars moving at 90mph all braking at the same time. Its going to be amazing.

Except when the first car blows a tire or slams into a large animal... then you have quite a pile up unless you've spaced them far enough apart for their tire tread and braking abilities with current weather/road conditions at current speed.

 

[Garlan Garner]

Except when the first car blows a tire or slams into a large animal... then you have quite a pile up unless you've spaced them far enough apart for their tire tread and braking abilities with current weather/road conditions at current speed.

Agreed.

 

[alseTrick]

Maybe there will be a special edition interior just for renting--an interior that could be hosed down once in a while.

Some sort of durable, pliable, comfortable, hydrophobic plastic-like material that covers the seats, carpet, headliner, dash, etc? Literally just take a garden hose and spray it down? Waterproof any electrical components and create a few key drain channels and/or plugs?