The unintended effects of driverless cars→
I’m buried deep in Taxation of Corporate Transactions this weekend (I know you’re jelly), but I just had to escape for a second to share this post from Koushik Dutta on the potentially awesome side-effect of Google’s driverless car project.
Dutta compares cars, which are typically not in use most of the time, with airplanes, which are almost constantly in use. The implementation of driverless technology could make car usage much more analogous to airplane usage:
Cars will spend less time idle: why would a household buy 2 (or even 3) cars, when they only need 1? Ride to work, then send the car home to your spouse. Need to go grocery shopping, but your kid also needs a ride to a soccer game? No problem, a driverless car can handle that.
Awesome. Can it be the future already? [Koushik Dutta via Techmeme]
