[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[David Lochrin]

On 2016-07-22 10:34 Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> If you live on the Northern Beaches of Sydney (Tony Abbott's and Bronwyn Bishop's (old) electorates) there are no trams, no trains and two bridges (Spit and Roseville) into the city.
> 
> They are building a big new hospital a few km's from where I live. The only transport will be bus, taxi, private car, cycle or ambulance.

I'm not suggesting there should be no private cars, only that public transport is a better option on major routes (such as WestConnex) than massive new road projects.

The motivation for driverless cars doesn't come from parents dropping the children off at school or going down to the shops in outer suburbs.  It comes from automating traffic on the major arteries and congested inner-city streets, the very situations where trains & trams are highly cost-effective.

David L.