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We can build over all of the parking lots once driverless cars become a thing, can't we? Public transportation looks awfully like a dead end in that light. If
by Felz 8y ago
We can build over all of the parking lots once driverless cars become a thing, can't we?
Public transportation looks awfully like a dead end in that light. If you don't have to park and drive them, cars are better in nearly every way.
- antoineMoPa 8y agoPublic transport also reduces the amount of congestion in roads that driverless cars can only worsen.
- Felz 8y agoProbably true, but completely missing my point. Buses are inflexible solutions, far from ideal transport. You have to find the bus, abide by its schedule, and the bus can only deliver its passengers sort of near its destination. If the bus isn't near full, it's also very wasteful. A better solution would be on-demand, and could come much closer to the passenger for pickup and dropoff. It would be cheaper to scale as needed. I think that describes driverless cars, and less perfectly Uber/Lyft. Improving congestion is a matter of improving thoroughput, and our society would be better off focusing on ways to pack more driverless cars into less road, or have more roads, or have more road alternatives (point to point electric scooters), or have better traffic routing, than make a bunch of buses and have people drive them around all day. And I don't even need to mention the crushing inflexibility of subways and trains.