This article says that with self driving cars, there is no incentive to park. So, the several gallons of fuel/electricity the car is going to burn during a working day are for free then?
Not free but according to the article it costs less than the cost of paying for parking.
still way cheaper than parking in downtown cores.
Well then the obvious solution is to make downtown driving expensive. Charge money to enter downtown
Then they have even more incentive to remain downtown circling around.
Until they run out of fuel. Then you have them pay more for that as well.
Charge $2 / 15mins for a SDC to be present downtown?
It's arleady $8 to cross the golden gate bridge. It's going to cost anohter how much exactly when I enter 'downtown'?
Bill vehicles according to the length of time spent in the area, minus any period spent off-road in a parking facility or similar (which will presumably be charged separately by the operator of the parking facility).