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The driverless city | Project Syndicate
A recent paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SMART Future Mobility team shows that the mobility demand of a city like Singapore – potentially host to the world’s first publicly-accessible fleet of self-driving cars – could be met with 30% of its existing vehicles. Furthermore, other researchers in the same group suggest that this number could be cut by another 40% if passengers traveling similar routes at the same time were willing to share a vehicle – an estimate supported by an analysis of New York City Taxis shareability networks. This implies a city in which everyone can travel on demand with just one-fifth of the number of cars in use today.
Read more by Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel on the Project Syndicate
tags: Automotive, driverless cars
Hallie Siegel
robotics editor-at-large
Hallie Siegel
robotics editor-at-large
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