At 11:59 AM +1000 26/4/18, Karl Auer wrote: >Interesting thought experiment is to wonder what all those unused cars >could be doing ...
Great starter-sets! The law of counter-countermeasures also suggests that there will be a new phenomenon of pop-up parking areas as the congestion rises and the liquidated demand for parking-spots rises to an attractive level. And add to the '101 uses for a self-driving car in a wait-loop: rental for local courier-deliveries and short-haul human transport, availability for enlistment or commandeering for demos and blockades, availability for commandeering for pavement-mounting massacres, ... _______________ At 11:59 AM +1000 26/4/18, Karl Auer wrote: >On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 11:03 +1000, David wrote: >> > But perhaps with smart networked cars parking sensors will be >> > obsolete. The car would simply tell the car park where it has >> > parked. If that car park fills up, the car could drive itself >> > elsewhere and come back when you are leaving. Self driving cars >> > could make soccer moms (unpaid uber-drivers) obsolete. ;-) >> Maybe!!!! > >I just had a vision of an entire city turned into a clogged and slowly >churning cauldron of driverless cars, all waiting to be called back to >their owners, who are shopping, working... and didn't want to bother >with parking. > >As soon as parking is a problem that people don't have to worry about, >those who currently provide parking will stop providing parking, >because the space could be used more profitably for other things. The >amount of parking will decrease, all parking spaces will become short- >stay (for loading and unloading) and cars not in active use will be >told to go crawling around the city until needed... or flitting from >short-stay parking spot to short-stay parking spot. > >Law of Unintended Consequences. > >Interesting thought experiment is to wonder what all those unused cars >could be doing, what possibilities a critical mass of unused cars might >pen up, the possibility of laws forbidding driverless cars from being >driverless without an occupant for longer than X minutes, the possible >rise of "car minder" as an occupation, the rise of dead driverless cars >that ran out of energy, blocking traffic because there was nowhere to >park... whew. Cars that can recognise an oncoming parking inspector and >leave; parking spaces that communicate with cars and negotiate terms; >parking spaces in areas that humans cannot go - deep underground, dark, >airless. > >Regards, K. > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Karl Auer ([email protected]) >http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer >http://twitter.com/kauer389 > >GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 >Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A > > >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
