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Tens of millions of people live in places where frequent bus service simply isn't practical. It's probably reasonable for society to make choices that overall i
by maxerickson 4y ago
Tens of millions of people live in places where frequent bus service simply isn't practical. It's probably reasonable for society to make choices that overall incentivize against living in those areas, but that isn't going to change where people live anytime soon.
And you can just use taxes to control any induced demand that comes from lower costs or new behaviors. The vehicles have sophisticated tracking systems and telematics built right in.
- endisneigh 4y agoThough you're not wrong, in a hypothetical world where most vehicles on the road were self driving busses, the frequency could be dynamically set and reasonable for everyone.
- maxerickson 4y agoI expect that "2 seat buses" would be quite popular in that scenario.
- arcticbull 4y agoAdding transit makes people live around the transit - if you let them by not kneecapping them with zoning rules. All this is an emergent property of a system designed to prevent new construction.
- Symmetry 4y agoBuses are as large as they are because the driver's time is valuable. If self-driving cars were cheap you could a bunch of 8 person van/busses on the road that give you most of the environmental/traffic benefit of a bus but could really expand frequency and reach.
- jupp0r 4y agoIf you shrink down 8 person busses to 5 people you have a normal passenger car.
- Symmetry 4y agoI don't think you can realistically get 3 strangers to squeeze into the back of a normal passenger car.
- chillingeffect 4y agolol I did this once with Lyft's cheaper service. One cranky old boomer killed the whole vibe bitching about hte driving "listening to his machine (GPS...)" instead of listening to his own, supposedly superior directions. Wish I'd sampled it.