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replace every 5 banned cars with 1 electric taxi and make it free That will massively increase the number of cars on the roads city center. Most cars in cities
by dagw 7y ago
replace every 5 banned cars with 1 electric taxi and make it free
That will massively increase the number of cars on the roads city center. Most cars in cities spend most of their time parked. Offer a free taxi service and those cars will be rolling 24/7. Plus since the service will be so popular that there will basically always be someone waiting for a ride, drivers will be incentivized to driver faster so that they can get more fares (and thus more money).
- UIZealot 7y agoIf the taxi service is free, there will be no fares, and no incentive to drive faster.
- majewsky 7y agoThere would still be incentive to drive faster. Given that the service has a fixed income side, the only way to optimize its profitability is getting the expense side down. Driving faster to make more tours with less cars is the most obvious way to do this, therefore drivers will be incentivized to go faster.
- adrianN 7y agoI don't see how replacing five cars with one massively increases the number of cars.
- Retric 7y agoon the roads != in the city People don’t spend very long driving their cars in the center of cities.
- aidenn0 7y agoIf a typical car spends more than 80% of its time parked, then the math works out.
- adrianN 7y agoIf people who would have driven their own car now take a taxi instead the math doesn't work out unless the taxis have to drive five times the average trip length for making pickups.
- stetrain 7y agoThe idea being that free taxi service might provide incentive to some people who weren't previously driving. Why bike when there's a free convenient taxi? Even those who drive might take more trips into town if they don't have to worry about driving in traffic and parking.
- CydeWeys 7y agoCorrect. In no way should single occupancy vehicle trips even be subsidized, let alone free! Taxis should be the most expensive option. Trains and buses should be much cheaper, if not free.
- stetrain 7y agoThe trains in my area are completely free. You pay $0 and they don't take you anywhere because they don't exist.
- dagw 7y agoI never drive in town, but offer me a free taxi service and I will use it several times a week.
- jcranberry 7y agoThat's assuming that there's no carpooling and that everyone is driving at the same time.
- Retric 7y agoNo, let’s assume the total trips are the same, so 2 per person in the city or whatever. Taxi’s still need to get to the start and end of each trip unlike cars which just park, that added distance increases total miles driven.