Does anyone know how the energy usage would compare to truck delivery? It seems to me this would be higher.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Driverless cars are already HERE.
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Driverless cars will, if people's hands can be pried off their steering wheels, annually save hundreds of thousands of the million lives lost worldwide to vehicle crashes. By contrast, this inane idea would cost at least a few lives.
It can only work in neighborhoods of low density single family dwellings without too many trees and utility wires around. City dwellers would be out of luck.
If the idea was successful, people would deliberately buy homes that worked with the system, accentuating suburban sprawl. This is just the kind of housing that anyone who cares about global warming (and I realize there are all kinds of opinion here on that) should want to discourage.