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This played out in San Francisco half a decade ago. It didn't work well. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/chariot-private-bus-startup-shutters-operations/?&
by benatkin 5y ago
This played out in San Francisco half a decade ago. It didn't work well.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/chariot-private-bus-startup-shutters-operations/?&cf=1 https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/chariot-private-bus-startup... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_Transit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_Transit
- sneak 5y agoWebvan didn't work, until it did one day. These sorts of casual dismissals assume that the underlying technological landscape doesn't change, and that all organizations execute identically on product. Neither assumption holds true.
- Factorium 5y agoIt didn't work because they were strangled by regulation, by City Bureaucrats fearful that the private market would outcompete public transport.