They won't need to park as much. Private cars are parked 95% of the time. Ideally a Robocar would be in constant motion, but 12 per day might be typical (same as London cab). Overnight they would drive themselves to depots on industrial estates for recharging, maintenance and cleaning.
Where did you find the 10% in 2041 forecast?
How many cars are currently on the road today? Maybe there is a tally somewhere on transport department. I am thinking the depots would need to be extremely large to accomodate them. Also they cant be driving around empty as they would be inefficient in respect to whats needed to help the environment problem.
I don't really understand what that means. But is it necessary for you to drive the vehicle ? Would a self-driving vehicle that Tuens up when you need and goes way when youd on't be more convenient ?
I operate a careline/telecare system. Basically if someone falls and can't get up, I go out and help them, 24/7. Some people are amputees, some have no use of their legs, some are very big or heavy, in which case we use special equipment to get them back to their feet. I do not work for the LAS but a local authority and will do this usually without referral to anyone else.
There are 36 million car and vans in the UK. But "one extra car in a car-sharing service typically takes 9-13 cars off the road. Self-driving vehicles could, in short, reduce urban vehicle numbers by as much as 90%."
Point taken. The remaining 10%-15% is presumably private road vehicles, which take up a lot of surface space now. AVs can improve this by eliminating many parking spaces. Also, inner London is not representative of the country as a whole, which I suspect is not as richly served with public transport choices. It would be a big job to do the analysis for the UK as a whole.
Understood. What's your view on the attractiveness of autonomous vehicles compared to the states quo ?
As already stated, good for some, not for me. I like my little car with few gadgets. I control virtually everything on it, no. Auto box, no auto lights, wipers etc. The car does what I get it to do. It's a relatively pure driving experience.
This report a few weeks ago was pessimistic about the prospects for self-driving cars in the near future - apparently they work very well on highways etc., but things get a lot trickier in cities.
“Number one is that this stuff is harder than manufacturers realised,” says Matthew Avery, director of research at Thatcham Research. While about 80% of self-driving is relatively simple – making the car follow the line of the road, stick to a certain side, avoid crashing – the next 10% involves more difficult situations such as roundabouts and complex junctions. “The last 10% is really difficult,” says Avery. “That’s when you’ve got, you know, a cow standing in the middle of the road that doesn’t want to move.”
It’s the last 20% that the AV industry is stuck on, especially the final 10%, which covers the devilish problem of “edge cases”. These are rare and unusual events that occur on the road such as a ball bouncing across the street followed by a running child; complicated roadworks that require the car to mount the kerb to get past; a group of protesters wielding signs."
How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane
The technology behind autonomous vehicles has proved devilishly hard to perfect. And progress hasn’t been helped by Tesla boss Elon Musk’s army of superfanswww.theguardian.com
Let's discuss this again in ten years' time.
Probably. Their are many people out there that cherish and regularly drive their classics which can be 50+ years old. This enjoyment will not necessarily pass because the car has been reinvented.
Yes, and they will follow the trajectory of horses, from working animals in their tens of millions to enthusiast hobbies. Horses are doing quite well out of this apparently. After a plunge in numbers from 1910 to mid century, numbers have been increasing modestly but consistently as more people take up recreational riding ( in the USA)
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Doesn't give you much hope for self driving if the car can't work out it's dark. 
But would it be?
My cousin is a district nurse. She keeps all her kit in the car and can be called out any time day or night. So yes they are essential for some.
Tesla autopilot manages to avoid crashing into moose crossing the road
Dashcam footage shows the smart vehicle, Tesla Model S, quickly turned to the side after its installed camera spotted the wild animal casually crossing the dark road in Sweden.www.dailymail.co.uk
Edge cases are indeed really tough problems. But the sheer mass of data being collected, and the amazing increases in AI power are allowing them to be knocked down, one by painstakingly one.
Above are cases involving a moose and a kangaroo.
There are many commentators who spread inaccurate information. Sometimes in bad faith, but more often because the state of the art is moving so fast that it's difficult to keep up.
misses a fence sitting option
But if it’s a no fault collision, your comprehensive policy pays out. So if the old codger has a heart attack and crashes into you, that’s hardly his fault, so his insurance will not pay out..it will be yours.
Instead of keeping it in a car could just use a small bag instead.
When visiting clients to help them amongst other things, I have a first aid kit and this. It is not possible on a bike.
