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I'm hopeful that robotaxi services end up teaming up with mass transit agencies so you plug into your app "I'm going to X" and the options are: - point to poin

I'm hopeful that robotaxi services end up teaming up with mass transit agencies so you plug into your app "I'm going to X" and the options are: - point to point in a private vehicle: x time, $y - to the RT station: x * 1.2, y * 0.3 - to the bikeshare cluster: x * 1.6, y * 0.1 Governments have a role to play in creating the proper incentives here too, ensuring that congestion is properly paid for— every time any road is moving less than 80% of the speed limit that should be considered a failure of policy that it was too cheap to drive on it that day.

vidarh 3y ago
A pet idea of mine is app-driven robobus that scales in vehicle size all the way down to that robotaxi and where picking journey by app is encouraged because when you do there is a "wait time guarantee" for the bus service where holes are plugged with robotaxis/minbuses. Being able to more or less promise a maximum wait time and being able to dynamically scale a bus service in smaller seat increments without the cost per seat going through the roof (I looked up UK coach hire costs breakdowns, and when hiring a 70 seat coach the cost of the driver still added up to about 40% of the title cost including amortisation of the vehicle itself; drop vehicle size and presumably that goes much higher and the per seat costs accordingly), combined with being able to flexibly feed passengers to transit hubs in smaller seat increments on routes where demand can't fill a full size bus all the time could make transit services vastly more convenient.