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ZacharyBartsch's avatar

You are right that the greatest efficiency gains could be reaped by those cities which are best able to accommodate auto-autos. Or maybe people will move toward [smaller] metropolitan areas which are already incidentally well-suited for such cars.

Saying that cities would be more efficient neglects the coordinative and capital costs of adjustment. Maybe instead, changing smaller cities and seeing migration is the most efficient outcome. (Some large and rigid cities would become like Detroit. Dynamic ones would be revived after property values have fallen such that adjustment is cheaper.)

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Probably huge potential under South Korean guidance, though the initial costs would be enormous (South Korea has hundreds of billions of headroom though because of their current low debt/GDP ratio).

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