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Why do you think it's harder to track mass transportation? Things like clipper cards, credit cards, etc will be able to log the data. If they also offered wifi
by withdavidli 11y ago
Why do you think it's harder to track mass transportation? Things like clipper cards, credit cards, etc will be able to log the data. If they also offered wifi it will help as well.
Don't know why they didn't do mass transportation, but my guess is legislation and unions. Getting rid of personal cars and human driving taxis is private industry. Mass transportation will have a large percentage be public sector workers and union workers.
If this is the path of least resistence and is proven to work, they will most likely go after mass transportation as well.
- Symbiote 11y agoGoogle don't need to do trains because other companies have been progressing this since the 1960s — the Victoria Line on the London Underground opened with the first automatic train operation in 1968. There are now many similar systems. Buses are more complicated than cars (city driving, people at stops etc), so doing cars first makes sense.
- withdavidli 11y agoAgree on the buses vs trains. Infrastructure is already there for modern train systems to be automated. >Buses are more complicated than cars (city driving, people at stops etc), so doing cars first makes sense. I don't think this is a valid argument. I see self driving cars operating in Mountain View (a city, albeit not a crazy driving city like SF or Boston), these cars are aware of people as stated in the article, the condition of people at stops can start with stopping at... well stops ->recognizing people that are waiting there. Maybe prepayment to figure out how many people should have boarded.