most humans are not paid to drive cars most of the time
Well, if you count people who rent cheap apartments in the suburbs rather than expensive ones downtown, and then drive to work (etc.) and back every day...
If suburbs become less inconvenient, rents there might be expected to go up. In which case (in the longish run) the time would be gained, the money would be lost, and that opportunity to trade time for money would be gone.
I would also expect rents in the city center to go down, at least in the short term. Which would benefit.. the kind of people who earn enough to live there, I suppose.
Inasmuch as I’m one of them, I’m okay with that, but this problem seems complex enough to demand a paper of its own.
Well, if you count people who rent cheap apartments in the suburbs rather than expensive ones downtown, and then drive to work (etc.) and back every day...
They are not paid to drive cars. From their perspective robotic cars are a pure gain of time, not a loss of money.
If suburbs become less inconvenient, rents there might be expected to go up. In which case (in the longish run) the time would be gained, the money would be lost, and that opportunity to trade time for money would be gone.
I would also expect rents in the city center to go down, at least in the short term. Which would benefit.. the kind of people who earn enough to live there, I suppose.
Inasmuch as I’m one of them, I’m okay with that, but this problem seems complex enough to demand a paper of its own.