# Urban planning guy sez driverless cars won't ease congestion

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**Created:** [October 28, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/urban-planning-guy-sez-driverless-cars-wont-ease-congestion/127670 "2018-10-28T04:50:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/urban-planning-guy-sez-driverless-cars-wont-ease-congestion/127670/1 "2018-10-28T04:50:55Z")

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> **[Urban Planning Guru Says Driverless Cars Won’t Fix Congestion](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/technology/driverless-cars-congestion.html)**
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> Tech companies claim that autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic. But skeptics argue that they’ll add to gridlock if people are still taking solo trips.

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**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/urban-planning-guy-sez-driverless-cars-wont-ease-congestion/127670/2 "2018-10-28T06:15:28Z")

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One car one driver, it doesn’t matter which one is driving except that when the car is driving, it tends to err on the side of safety which car cause more congestion because the trip takes longer.

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**Author:** ![boilerengtn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/boilerengtn/32/6955_2.png) [@boilerengtn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/boilerengtn)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/urban-planning-guy-sez-driverless-cars-wont-ease-congestion/127670/3 "2018-10-28T11:48:08Z")

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Is the NY Times slogan, “Telling you stuff you already know?” Didn’t we have a recent post from them that had other information presented as new that was already widely known?

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**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/urban-planning-guy-sez-driverless-cars-wont-ease-congestion/127670/4 "2018-10-28T13:27:47Z")

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I still think RT is on the NYT advertising staff.