Like in the average US school? Tell me, if I'm wrong (I'm from Germany, so I don't have practical experience), but isn't this done by finishing school at different times per grade, have everyone queue on the street instead of a parking lot and discourage other means by letting those wait till the end that want to walk home on their own.
In my experience as a school worker: you have the children queue for an hour and a half, because no one cares about wasting children's time and I'm paid by the hour.
Am I the only one who works for a company that lets everyone get stuff delivered to work? we get 1 personal package per 5 to 10 employees most days. is really not disruptive. Only problem we might have in future is if we start getting one off deliveries all day long from the amazon direct delivery contractors. I know this is not a universal solution but cant it be the norm?
I, for one, work in a prison. Before that I worked in a university (no office) and a middle school. At none of these places would it have been feasible (theft risk, number of employees, lack of a 'front office') to store deliveries at my work space. Furthermore, I wouldn't have had anywhere to keep the package if it was brought to me.
How are they going to handle snow? Sure most will have winter tires, at least in this neck of the wood, but I find you need the right touch now and then in bad conditions.
Related: I order my AV to keep the meter running, I'll only be about 15 minutes. In that time, a couple of inches of snow fall. Now the car is stuck in the snow! It's tires spin uselessly w/o traction How will the car be freed? It is not my car, not my responsibility to dig it out, and besides, if the car does not come with it's own sand and shovel, what could I do about it?
I feel very different from you. I think it will be relaxing. Especially knowing that many of the other cars on the highway are also driven by computers, not human drivers checking their phones, rushing to get somewhere, yelling at their kid in the backseat, etc. There are so many accidents every year caused by human error. I'm not delusional enough to think I can outperform a computer.
I think we're referring here to the transitional phase where your choice is to drive yourself or be driven
knowing that every other car on the road is being driven by humans. Call it fall of next year: if AV's aren't able to interpret human being's terrible driving in practice as well as other, terrible, human drivers, then no one will want to ride one. Meaning that the terrible drivers will keep right on driving, meaning no one will want to ride one. Meaning...
When you’re on a bus, you are not looking at the road ahead judging every decision the driver makes. The hurdle for some will be trusting the computer the same way you trust a human.
The primary objection of many of the drivers I know to public transportation now (i.e. the reason they won't ride buses) is that they aren't driving the bus, and
do spend the whole ride "judging every decision the driver makes". These are the people who will insist on driving their own cars right up until the bitter end.
Technician will show up with a new control module. Out with old, in with new, good to go.
Error code 503: Vehicle bricked while taking curve, now in thousands of pieces.
Error code 504: Family of five inside vehicle also in thousands of pieces.
It would be cool to have the seats facing each other so you could interact more easily with the others in the car instead of everyone facing the front. Also having reclining chairs so you can nap. Or swivel chairs, so you can see in any direction, although that might be risky in case of a crash. Without a human driver, there are so many possibilities!
This was tried in the 50's. I'm told the problem is that sitting at any kind of an angle except facing straight forwards gives motion sickness to people who don't normally get car sick.