I need a driverless car to avoid parking downtown.
Just let the car circle the block as I run errands.
I don’t have a problem with driverless cars being an option.
What I have a problem with is when driving the car myself stops being an option.
Big brother always starts out its social engineering programs as “safer options”, “environment friendly solutions”, or “progress”, and fiegns respect for tradition.
Eventually, the carrot becomes the stick. Tax incentives, discounted insurance rates, and social approval make way for social stigma, penalties, surcharges and restrictions.
Finally, the nonconforming behavior becomes outright illegal.
It will happen as surely as the sun rises in the East.
In the case of avoiding parking by having your car circle, surely you see that having several hundred or more all doing this would make our roads impassable congested.
This is why in san Francisco for example we are limited to a grand total of 2000 taxis. All cities limit the number of cars in this service for this reason (NOT to simple create a costly monopoly as is so often claimed)
Uber came in and our congestion has literally doubled. They are not limited and people use them instead of the bus and/or instead of driving no and parking.