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"Personnel costs" means every human working at the transit agency. Self-driving buses aren't going to eliminate the maintenance department at CTA. If anything i
by triceratops 2y ago
"Personnel costs" means every human working at the transit agency. Self-driving buses aren't going to eliminate the maintenance department at CTA. If anything it could grow because they might expand bus routes.
- Retric 2y agoThere’s far more bus drivers than maintenance workers. Further you need HR and managers to handle having a large driver workforce. So while drivers aren’t responsible for all of that 70%, they are a high percentage of it.
- xnx 2y ago> Self-driving buses aren't going to eliminate the maintenance department at CTA By moving from specialty vehicles like large diesel busses to vehicles based on commodity/consumer minivans, it will be possible to multiple external services. This gives the taxpayer the benefit of scale and competition. There's no need for a monopoly in city transit. In a future state, we could have multiple transit providers, similar to how airlines operate today.