> Long-term, it's easy to imagine that autonomous vehicles could provide much higher passenger throughput for a given road-area
No this is nonsense. The gains, marginal as they are, would only exist in places like highways outside of cities where you can assume nothing is going to walk out in front of a car.
https://jalopnik.com/even-uberpool-is-making-traffic-worse-i...
> Long-term, it's easy to imagine that autonomous vehicles could provide much higher passenger throughput for a given road-area
No this is nonsense. The gains, marginal as they are, would only exist in places like highways outside of cities where you can assume nothing is going to walk out in front of a car.