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Re: Connected/Automated vehicles and infrastructure in Boston
In which we see AVs exploiting the mispricing of parking spaces:
Tesla Owner Uses 'Summon' to Remotely Move His Car to Avoid Parking Tickets
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In which we see AVs exploiting the mispricing of rush hour roads:
Self driving mobile-billboard trucks will be an obvious early and widespread commercial application of autonomous vehicles, particularly in rush hours, when they can be seen by a maximum number of high-income people.
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Are mobile-billboards specially taxed in any way? If not, they should be. Or banned.
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Really interesting inside look at Uber's attempt at self-driving cars (about to resume after taking a hiatus following the death of a pedestrian).
Anyone interested in this should read this - it is not confidence inspiring. It speaks both to total dysfunction within Uber, as well as to the technological challenges. The engineer in me, though, can appreciate that it is possible to do a much better job with this than Uber has been. https://markets.businessinsider.com/...-10-1027740254 |
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I was at Assembly Square this week, which, between trader Joe's and Christmas Tree See was a zoo.
So of course the plan was that I would circle the block while my wife went in and shopped. I can only imagine that everyone will want to put their car into "circle the block" mode when there are no parking spots. I will admit that my behavior was personally rational and value maximizing, but imposed high social costs (even worse traffic). It is going to be a gridlock disaster unless we get both dynamic congestion pricing and parking pricing.
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