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"A level 4 autonomous vehicle will be for sale in the US to ordinary customers (80 percent)"
When this becomes universally adopted, it's going to have a bigger impact than anyone thinks.
Cities now derive revenue from traffic fines, parking fines, parking fees, and so on.
Level 4 autonomous vehicles are going to obviate ALL of that which means cities are going to lose more and more revenue as they become adopted.
And nobody is thinking about how to replace that revenue.
I live in Southern California in a parking impacted area. The amount of money they make off of "street sweeping" is insane. With this, you'd just tell your car to drive around until the street sweeping is done.
Yup, back when I had to go to an office I was paying $21 a day to park. 5 days a week.
With an autonomous car I could have it drop me off, drive back home, then pick me up based on my cell phone location on demand.
Yeah, I'd double my gas usage during the week, but I guarantee it would be less than $105.
It wouldn't have to go all the way home, just some safe free spot.
If you have family/friends it could be helping them out all day.
Or a robotaxi might suit better.
Set it up as Uber/Lyft and make money while you make money. :)
Think of how well people treat public transport they all depend on...now that place is your car and people are alone and unsupervised. You're going to spend a large amount of time and money keeping the car from being a trashed mess.