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The future of public transportation is buses and trains. Any other solution that involves wrapping individual humans in a steel bubble 10x the size is woefully
by beAbU 2y ago
The future of public transportation is buses and trains. Any other solution that involves wrapping individual humans in a steel bubble 10x the size is woefully inefficient and wasteful. No matter how well they self drive.
For every bus you can take ~50 cars off the road.
- dimator 2y agoUnfortunately, at least in the US, that ship has sailed, and there is zero interest in creating walkable, public-transit friendly cities. Doing things the right way requires civic-minded effort. The average American is just way too individualistic to make a dent in this problem.
- beAbU 2y agoYou might be right. I saw a survey somewhere (can't find it now), where Americans were asked about working in factories. Majority said that USA will be better if more people started working in factories, but a minority said USA will be better if /they/ worked in factories. It's the whole "I got mine" mentality, where people are not willing to compromise on their own comfort for the greater good, yet they expect others to do so. I don't think this is unique to the US, I think it's just very egregious there at the moment.