Far down the road. Heh. I see what you're doing there. What I should have mentioned is that basically what you get is about 20% more parking your city without building any physical infra to provide it. That's the cost of alternate street parking on the weekdays when most street sweeping is done. Also there is the possibility of variable pricing of street meters, and pay lots depending on traffic and demand. These things can be done before full autonomous vehicles are widespread, but yes, having the asphalt zamboni and the parked cars move themselves would be nice.
It would also be a good gig economy in the short term if certified valets with keyless car entry could do this work as well. They would be cheaper than a citation. I think what we *should* see is a hybrid economy. What I have found, much to my dismay, is how disintermediating humans force us into very inconvenient and frustrating areas of customer service where CSRs have been dumbed down. Almost nobody gets it right for customer support edge cases, where idiots take 3 hours to solve what an empowered manager could fix in 10 minutes. Hmm. I should finally write about my washing machine saga, or did I already?
Far down the road. Heh. I see what you're doing there. What I should have mentioned is that basically what you get is about 20% more parking your city without building any physical infra to provide it. That's the cost of alternate street parking on the weekdays when most street sweeping is done. Also there is the possibility of variable pricing of street meters, and pay lots depending on traffic and demand. These things can be done before full autonomous vehicles are widespread, but yes, having the asphalt zamboni and the parked cars move themselves would be nice.
It would also be a good gig economy in the short term if certified valets with keyless car entry could do this work as well. They would be cheaper than a citation. I think what we *should* see is a hybrid economy. What I have found, much to my dismay, is how disintermediating humans force us into very inconvenient and frustrating areas of customer service where CSRs have been dumbed down. Almost nobody gets it right for customer support edge cases, where idiots take 3 hours to solve what an empowered manager could fix in 10 minutes. Hmm. I should finally write about my washing machine saga, or did I already?