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> Much of the US like Huston and Miami is extremely lacking in public transit, and will likely never build the infrastructure. I am not trying to be a contrari

> Much of the US like Huston and Miami is extremely lacking in public transit, and will likely never build the infrastructure. I am not trying to be a contrarian here, but I fail to see how that is an answer. I feel like what you say boils down to "since we are not solving the problem at hand in a good way, we decided to solve it in a worse way". > ~50% of your fare goes to the driver. Yet these ride-hailing companies who receive whatever is remaining after the meager pay of the rider and other costs only recently started to make actual profits. And even though it feels like the prices for customers increased a lot over the years, these companies are not exactly printing money.

palmtree3000 2y ago
> since we are not solving the problem at hand in a good way, we decided to solve it in a worse way It's a different "we". Rephrased: since Houston's government is not solving the problem at hand in a good way, Waymo decided to solve it in a worse way
standardUser 2y ago
Forget Houston. Half this country is suburban-to-rural with development patterns that are profoundly ill-suited to mass transit. Yet, all of those areas have a fantastic road system already fully built out. Provide cheap rideshares (by removing most of the labor cost, which are the vast majority of the per-ride costs) and you've solved the previously unsolvable problem of moving Americans from point A to point B without each person needing to own and pilot a car.