Nobody seems to have considered the possibility of actually driverless cars. Would not be remotely legal, but interesting to consider them just aimlessly driving city streets or looking for parking that it will never find.
will parking costs go down? will there be some laws forbidding this behavior?
edit: maybe subsidize is the wrong word, but rather that they will incentivize affordable parking and make more available.
Instead, if you know roughly how long you'll be gone, they could temporarily Lyft while you shop.
There is illegal robbery and legal robbery... once neighborhood redlining became popular, you can guarantee cities would start raising revenue by ticketing self driving cars caught cruising residential zones, entertainment districts, etc. We have plenty of existing laws and case law against "cruising". You can imagine the bug reports already "Your service failed to inform my car that the sportsball team was having a game last night, placing the stadium district under no-cruise law, so I got ticketed, towed, impounded, and had to pay for a taxi home"
Having a robot do it instead of a person would be an improvement. Better would be to make the behavior stop regardless of driverlessness.
It's fine to want to pay less, but in the end you might have just parked at a train/subway station far away and taken the train downtown
Faster, quicker and probably cheaper
I've seen the pointless discussions and I probably did not word my previous comment properly to indicate I am still trying to find compelling arguments one way or another.