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I wouldn't compare it to buses, I'd compare it to taxis combined with zipcar. Buses don't have the destination/pickup resolution that a small 2-4 seat vehicle h
by jackvalentine 12y ago
I wouldn't compare it to buses, I'd compare it to taxis combined with zipcar. Buses don't have the destination/pickup resolution that a small 2-4 seat vehicle has.
- Sami_Lehtinen 12y agoBuses don't need to be on fixed route. In Helsinki some buses are using dynamic routing based on demand. So basically those are shared taxis with drivers. When the driver can be dropped out of the equation service can be cheaper and there can be a lot more of these vehicles. https://kutsuplus.fi/home https://kutsuplus.fi/home
- jackvalentine 12y agoYou're going to need to translate some of this for me. How long in advance do I have to signal my intent to get the bus? How frequent are the busses/how long will I wait on average? How close will busses come to me, will they come to my house in a court where it needs to three point turn to get out? Will the bus wait 10 minutes while I load my things in it? I don't think the google car will replace mass transit like busses, trains and trams. They're a far more blunt instrument. I do however see it as a more flexible hybrid of car sharing and taxis. A taxi fleet that doesn't have the overhead of keeping enough drivers active for small demand spikes and can be sent directly to the user. Edit: Weird, was not showing up in English on my phone, does on my laptop.
- Sami_Lehtinen 12y agoI assume they're using accept-language. Because it's in Finnish on my work laptop, but on my home desktop and mobile it's in English. Anyway, here's link that goes always to English version. https://kutsuplus.fi/home?lang=en_GB https://kutsuplus.fi/home?lang=en_GB