I don't know where you're from, but where I live (the US) public ground transit plays a very small and steadily decreasing role in total mode share: https://en

I don't know where you're from, but where I live (the US) public ground transit plays a very small and steadily decreasing role in total mode share: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_States#Mode_share https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_S... and given the current growth trends promises to play a smaller one in the future. (I just returned from a trip to the southwest - ever seen Phoenix? Given the growth trends that mess is as likely to be the future as anything else is.) As someone living in a city who likes the idea of transit (and walking and biking), I think the sort of prescriptive attitude (transit is the solution to all questions!) you are displaying is part of the reason American's have such a poor (and declining) opinion of it. Autonomy opens up possibilities - of taming the roads, of enabling more responsive transit that can reach deeper into medium density suburbs, etc, but none of that is going to happen without a wide spectrum of constructive criticism.