Your objections are actually based on ICE car assumptions. ICE cars are going away soon, they're irrelevant when talking about the future of transportation. Th

Your objections are actually based on ICE car assumptions. ICE cars are going away soon, they're irrelevant when talking about the future of transportation. There are few, if any efficiency gains in one vs many electric motors. They don't produce noise or air pollution. Wear and tear on road surface is actually much worse for heavy busses than cars, they actually deform the asphalt and can cause accidents: https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/07/05/road_ridges_made_by_buses_huge_hazard_for_motorcyclists.html https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/07/05/road_ridges_made_by_... > Then you have to go through an additional middleman, the city, to find parking for your 1/5-of-a-bus and permission to drive on certain roads, in certain lanes, etc. Among other things. I already have parking for my 1/n-th of a bus. Running an exchange would be a much more valuable use of a city's resources rather than operating bus depots, etc.