What you are describing here sounds a lot like transit, but instead of designing a city to work well with it or developing wise transit routes, we’ll just let autonoumous cars fill the role and continue wasting resources with inefficient methods of traveling.
A big part of the problem with cars is that their existing infrastructure is already very expensive to maintain and promotes other utilities such as electical lines and water lines to be longer and therefore more expensive as well. After initial investments most transit and active transportation ends up costing less to maintain per trip than car infrastructure. Currently much of car infrastructure is heavily subsidized.
I think there would also be issues with a significant portion of the population not wanting to adopt a subscription based service over private vehicle ownership.
Vehicles purchased might go down but vehicle miles traveled will go way up. The cost of driving will go down so there will be more mile driven and then there will be all the added trips of empty vehicles.
![[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/11c37658-7c32-4cc2-b12c-6ced348bd09d.png){kind=link}
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What you are describing here sounds a lot like transit, but instead of designing a city to work well with it or developing wise transit routes, we’ll just let autonoumous cars fill the role and continue wasting resources with inefficient methods of traveling.
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A big part of the problem with cars is that their existing infrastructure is already very expensive to maintain and promotes other utilities such as electical lines and water lines to be longer and therefore more expensive as well. After initial investments most transit and active transportation ends up costing less to maintain per trip than car infrastructure. Currently much of car infrastructure is heavily subsidized.
I think there would also be issues with a significant portion of the population not wanting to adopt a subscription based service over private vehicle ownership.
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Vehicles purchased might go down but vehicle miles traveled will go way up. The cost of driving will go down so there will be more mile driven and then there will be all the added trips of empty vehicles.
I don’t think the empty miles will be a huge factor, just the increase in total miles.