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Old Posted May 30, 2014, 9:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Hatman View Post
An interesting thought exercise:

What Will Happen to Public Transit in a World Full of Autonomous Cars?

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/...ous-cars/8131/
This article mirrors a lot of my thinking on this topic. Less used bus lines will be dropped in favour of the self-driving cars. Heavily used bus lines will still be needed since they use far less space per passenger than cars.
One point he doesn't touch one is the greatly reduced need for car parking will lead to denser cities (no parking requirement when building will change things quite a bit in most places).
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