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Buses 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
by Symmetry 4y ago
Buses 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.