Not quite. More like the shared taxi stops that operate in poorer countries. I saw many of these in Cuba. Not like a bus in that it was: 1. Faster 2. Carri

Not quite. More like the shared taxi stops that operate in poorer countries. I saw many of these in Cuba. Not like a bus in that it was: 1. Faster 2. Carried fewer people 3. Had route flexibility. You could pay extra to go off the route, negotiated with the driver and checking it didn't inconvenience the other passengers. This is radically different from how we run transport in North America. With self driving cars, I could see Uber running shuttles around the city that decided optimal multi-user routes taking into consideration all the various route requests users had entered. I always figured this was their end game as far as consumer transport was concerned.