“Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot”
Another impetus towards a future in which individuals don’t own autos, but rather use fleet AEVs, is reclaiming those vast parking lots for renewed human habitation and activities.
If the average parking space is approx. 120 square feet, then it takes about 1000 square miles to park all of our 250 million vehicles. But since there are at least as many parking spots at places to which we travel as there are where we live, then about 2000 square miles of USA land is given over to parking spots/lots, about the size of state of Delaware!
Realistically, we’ll never return all parking places to us humans, as there will always be some private vehicles (very clearly evident from previous posters here), and some parking places will be needed for AEV fleets, although such fleets will probably either be in motion or parked temporarily alongside a road.