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When people talk about cutting edge technologies entering the mainstream the word disruptive gets thrown about way too frequently. "How quantum computers will disrupt the world of encryption" things of that nature. For autonomous cars, the promise of a vehicle that needs no oversite of a human driver, the potential impacts are incredibly, traffic will no longer need to use tradtional traffic lights, cities can do away with the majority of their parking lots, the list goes on. What has not recieved too much conversation, has been the impact on airports (well so far as this author has run into during casual updates on the tech sphere).
An autonous car means that flightstrips(the party responsible for this mistake has been slapped as a result of this mistake (1/31/17)) to locations 500 or so miles away are no longer as necessary, why spend the an hour inside of a plane, plus the hassle of security, when you can just queue up a destination in a sleeper car, and wake up 8 hours later at your target destination, on its own this will certainly change people's habits but it doesn't necessarily mean that airlines would be quaking in their boots. Not everyone wants to try to sleep and drive. An autonomous car, in tandem with smart planning software, and airlines that are willing to collaborate, that's got some real promise. For someone based in a city Boston, a smart car means that they don't necessarily need to go to Logan for their flight to Bejing instead, they could commute to find the most optimal international airport. The journey could be seemless, computers can account for net travel time, you get picked up, driven to a target airport that minimizes how many hours you spend in layover (or at least optimizes the length of your layover). Every trip a perfect balance of cost, convenience, and transit time. This augmenting of travel would also mean that hub airports and regional airports would need to compete againts eachother potentially driving down costs, or at least minimizing congestion.
If you have any thoughts, suggestions, feedback, please let me know in the comments.
When people talk about cutting edge technologies entering the mainstream the word disruptive gets thrown about way too frequently. "How quantum computers will disrupt the world of encryption" things of that nature. For autonomous cars, the promise of a vehicle that needs no oversite of a human driver, the potential impacts are incredibly, traffic will no longer need to use tradtional traffic lights, cities can do away with the majority of their parking lots, the list goes on. What has not recieved too much conversation, has been the impact on airports (well so far as this author has run into during casual updates on the tech sphere).
An autonous car means that flights
If you have any thoughts, suggestions, feedback, please let me know in the comments.
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