So self driving car brands are currently in the process of offering subscription based self driving features.

Soon these subscriptions will be cheap enough for everybody to abandon public transport and get into their self driving cars instead.

This means that everybody will be in their cars and it will create the biggest traffic jam in human history!

And finally, self-driving cars will be totally safe and able to drive completely unsupervised! While standing still in traffic going an average of 5 km/h…

It will be beautiful (/s)

  • AloneDownUnder@quokk.auOPEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    That would make sense actually. How would congestion pricing work though? Like you have to pay for the duration you occupy the road? How to track this?

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
      2·
      19 hours ago

      It’s only really trackable with a gross amount of surveillance, either gps based inside the car or cameras on every street

      • AloneDownUnder@quokk.auOPEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        I suppose they could do something like the toll roads, where you drive through a coil and trigger a wireless badge. Everytime you trigger it you will pay a certain fee. If you don’t have a badge, your license plate is recorded and you get sent a fine. Similar to speed cameras you already have.