San Francisco is a finalist in the challenge. San Francisco wishes to create "a network of city-run cars and shuttles, where the on-demand businesses it's still struggling to regulate are a seamless part of life." The city wants to reduce traffic by creating autonomous cars, where people share one car instead of driving their own.
To help the self driving cars, sensors will be built in to the streets. Cars will also be able to talk to other vehicles.
The goal of San Francisco's self driving and autonomous cars is to persuade people to sell their cars and rely solely on city-run transit services.
Currently San Francisco's public transportation is facing many challenges. Their public transit is underfunded. San Fran's population is rapidly increasing and the city cannot keep up.
To ease people into the new plan, the city has come up with an app "that cobbles together a commute from an eclectic rang of options."
Someone can drive their car to the first stop, then leave it there for someone else to rent it throughout the day. A person can then use public transit, bikes or a ride-sharing service.
San Francisco also wants to create "vanpools, smarter maps and lockers so that delivery trucks can drop their goods off at night when there's less traffic."
San Francisco is one of the seven finalists in the Smart Cities Challenge. "Each of the finalists received $100,000 to refine its ideas." A winner will be chosen in June.
"Can a City Switch Entirely to Driverless Cars?" CNN Money Article: http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/31/technology/san-francisco-smart-city/
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