Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?

Post by mdn0420 » Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #16

danso wrote: post #4

This may derail the discussion but it's hard to discuss this question without first wondering the impact of self-driving cars to mass transit . At least in New York, being near a subway stop is a very nice amenity and commercial development typically flourishes around each stop regardless of neighborhood. If stepping into a self-driving car is as easy as walking 50 feet to the nearest subway stop, will real estate ar…

A royal commission did a study on "Traffic in Towns" in 1963 and concluded it would be impossible to serve a city with London-like size and density with cars even if you put the buildings up on stilts and built multiple levels of roads an highways -- the problem is that you can't support a high enough level of traffic on highway offramps. New York City is pretty close to the maximum limit of car capacity it can suppo…