> "For the product being delivered (low speed, low latency, available only in specific areas), public transit is criminally expensive." This is true - the prob

> "For the product being delivered (low speed, low latency, available only in specific areas), public transit is criminally expensive." This is true - the problem is that dynamic-dispatch transit is even more expensive on a per-passenger or per-ride basis, and both speed and latency are actually worse than status quo public transit. It'd be one thing if the result of these projects have been "this is great but expensive", but the result overwhelmingly has been worse than fixed-route bus transit across every major metric. Autonomous cars can improve the cost problem, but can't dramatically change the calculus on speed and latency. Likewise, autonomous cars can also solve the cost problem for buses, and better!