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Originally Posted by Tesladom
Nothing's gonna happen until at least 2036 on this front, maybe by then the concept of public transit will be very different with self driving pods/people movers etc...
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Don't want to let this gem pass without comment. Anybody who believes this really doesn't get how cities work. And isn't willing to apply any critical thinking at all to the nonsense coming from Silicon Valley tech bros....
Take a bus of 40 people and put them all in pods of two seats. Does anybody think these pods would take up less road space than the bus with 40 riders? Now do that for every transit vehicle out there and add more traffic than today as induced demand kicks in from people who otherwise dislike driving and you quickly see what a traffic nightmare automated pods would become. Even with full-automation, putting everyone in personal pods is likely to result in longer trips for everyone.
Jarrett Walker does a great job explaining why mass transportation is a space problem, not a technology problem:
https://humantransit.org/2016/07/elon-musk-doesnt-understand-geometry.html
So if anyone is trying to argue against public transit citing some future technology which will make public transit obsolete, they are either ignorant of how that tech would play out or opposed to public transit for some selfish reason, or both.
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