Quoth the SFMTA's Liz Brisson: There’s no way that autonomous vehicles running on surface streets gets you the level of capacity that grade-separated high-capa

Quoth the SFMTA's Liz Brisson: There’s no way that autonomous vehicles running on surface streets gets you the level of capacity that grade-separated high-capacity transit gets you. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone argue that it will. E.g. a 10-car BART train with 119 passengers per traincar running at 24 trains/hour today and 28/hour in the future with ATCS upgrades.