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FWIW, as an avid hypermiler (who also owns an EV and pays for wind power), and works from home, the mpg per person of public transport isn't that great, I have
by hackerpacker 8y ago
FWIW, as an avid hypermiler (who also owns an EV and pays for wind power), and works from home, the mpg per person of public transport isn't that great, I have no problem exceeding it, even without passengers (though I usually have passengers when I go somewhere).
https://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10311 https://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10311
Certainly there are plenty of motorcycles that beat it without much effort/technique as well.
So, what am I supposed to be taxed for again? The environment inside a moving box full of strangers, and the scheduling headaches, doesn't excite me much as an alternative.
I wonder how much of the "decline" is because of people who work from home. I don't think uber is entirely the cause, more like uber displaced taxi drivers.
- crooked-v 8y ago> So, what am I supposed to be taxed for again? The societal benefits of poor people being able to get to work every day.
- ghaff 8y agoThe article does mention home work. It's probably a combination of factors as the piece suggests. There are certainly enough anecdotal stories of people switching to UberPool from transit because the price works out to be about the same. And biking infrastructure has tended to get better however incrementally. And you have bike share services too.
- st26 8y agoIt isn't about mpg, it's about use of space & everything that falls out of that. Less money building roads, parking lots, etc. Sidebar, I wonder how an EV car stacks up to an EV bus.
- JanisL 8y ago> the mpg per person of public transport isn't that great The point is that it gives an opportunity to reduce the "m" in the mpg.