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Then, maybe we can use this data to find some popular routes and just have cars driving along them, stopping at popular locations for pick up and drop off. Now,
by durgiston 9y ago
Then, maybe we can use this data to find some popular routes and just have cars driving along them, stopping at popular locations for pick up and drop off. Now, stop me if you heard this one before, but maybe if lots of people use a route, we'll have bigger cars, with like a ~50 person capacity, go less frequently, you know, for efficiency.
- baldfat 9y agoAutomated cars are not a replacement for buses (I used a bus today in fact) but for the need to drive out of town.
- Sharlin 9y agoAnd for transporting things that are not feasible to transport by bus.
- barrkel 9y agoPersonal vehicles eliminate waiting. Waiting is the biggest problem with mass transit. It's preferable to have slightly longer journey times as long as your expected wait time is less. The tube runs every few minutes on popular lines, and don't suffer from congestion (when there isn't problems on the line), so they're acceptable. Trains running on a timetable less so (they make you pay much more attention to the time, and they're frequently delayed and increasingly often cancelled), while buses just feel like a massive waste of time.