Lyft suggests autonomous driving would cut congestion problems in inner cities, using lanes more effectively. Image source: Shutterstock (#635497487)
Lyft wants to solve the congestion problem of Los Angeles with autonomous driving technology. The company, who is testing in cooperation with General Motors and engineers and designers at Perkins+Will and Nelson/Nygaard, proposes to counter-intuitively reduce the number of lanes, but make them more efficient.
The same street that can transport 30,000 people an hour with ten lanes right now would manage 77,000 under the Lyft proposal, and that is with cutting the general purpose lanes to three. In addition, there would be a dedicated bus lane, two dedicated bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks with more landscaping, and dedicated loading zones.
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