Re: Self driving car
"avoid parking problems"
You may laugh, but if you can avoid Westminster (and other) councils' £30-40 quid per day parking charges by having your car trundle off to $CHEAP_PARKING_SPOT for £3-4/day, wouldn't you do that?
It's something that's been on the horizon for some time. Councils should have come up with strategies to adapt, but instead they've gone to a knee-jerk focus on maintaining income, despite parking money not being legally allowed to be used for anything other than roading/transportation.
Many councils have been illegally diverting parking and fines money into general expenditure - they can get away with this for a while as the only time it can be challenged is when the annual plan is announced, with an objection period of only a few weeks each year.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
