A good public transit system leaves from within 5 minutes of where you live and goes to within 5 minutes of where you want to be in any town of more than like 40k people.
A good public transit system is also better for the environment, makes traffic less awful, and is generally just preferable to robotaxi bs.
Sure, but I cannot imagine that Elon’s newest toy would solve that. It still needs to be dispatched from somewhere. Obviously, it would solve it, if you splurged on tons of robovans, much like you’d solve it, if you splurged on tons of buses.
I don’t think it is intended to replace busses for the public. My guess is that the target market is companies that offer private ride shares to their employees.
A good public transit system leaves from within 5 minutes of where you live and goes to within 5 minutes of where you want to be in any town of more than like 40k people.
A good public transit system is also better for the environment, makes traffic less awful, and is generally just preferable to robotaxi bs.
The person you’re responding to was not making a case for or against, just stating that a robo-taxi is not similar to a city bus.
That’s technically true where I live but it would require waiting for a local bus at each end of most trips, and that’s usually slower than walking.
Sure, but I cannot imagine that Elon’s newest toy would solve that. It still needs to be dispatched from somewhere. Obviously, it would solve it, if you splurged on tons of robovans, much like you’d solve it, if you splurged on tons of buses.
I don’t think it is intended to replace busses for the public. My guess is that the target market is companies that offer private ride shares to their employees.
Scheduled pick-up is already a thing on ride shares.