You'd still need to allow AVs to stop. But in my conception, the vehicles aren't so much "autonomous" as they are routed. The routing algorithm would be able to prepare all the vehicles an arbitrary distance away for a briefly blocked lane. I think a lot of redesign would have to happen, realistically, to try to account for all sorts of exceptions. But it still feels like we could have a far more flexible and efficient transportation infrastructure than we do now if a whole lot of things we take for granted coudl be revisited.
Yea I was always thinking you’d have a portion of each block set aside for loading/unloading. Would create some funneling issues though. It’s an awesome amount of space which could be reclaimed for pedistrian and bicicle usage though.
