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Why are we still doing this? Just fucking invest in mass transit like metro, buses and metrobuses. Jesus
Also, Note that this is based on waymo's own assumptions, that's like believing a 5070 gives you 4090 performance...
That doesn't solve the last mile problem, or transport for all the people who live outside of a few dense cities.
Yes it does, if done properly. I have stops for four bus lines within walking distance. During peak hours, buses come once every 15 minutes. Trolleys in the city centre, every 10 minutes. Trams, every two minutes, and always packed. Most of the surrounding villages have bus stops. A lack of perspective is not an excuse.
Well if YOU have a bus stop near you then everyone must! That's just science!
If you build it they will come
Because having a bus to pick up 7 people in a day is really efficient economically and environmentally...
For sure. Just cruising around the countryside on the off chance that someone actually needs the bus that day. They haven't for the past few but they have to go shopping eventually.
Much more so than having a car-centric infrastructure. If you start cherry-picking you'll of course find cases where a car would have been more efficient but public transportation needs to be understood as a whole.
I'm not cherry picking Im just telling you my personal experience and the town I live in
Yeah, all three of them.
Uh, yes, actually. I know someone like you can't even fathom the possibility of a public transit system being well-built because you've been gaslit into believing that whatever happens in The West is the best humanity can offer, but we've got 80 bus and trolley lines criss-crossing the city. As a guesstimate, three quarters of the city is within a 10-minute walk from a stop, and the elderly and disabled who can't walk benefit from the resulting reduction in traffic.
And all the world is cities! There's noooooooooo other type of living. Your egocentric view of the world is going to carry you really far.
Did you hallucinate that I said anything like it or something? Obviously not every situation is solved by the same concept. Dense city centres -- sidewalks, bike paths, trams, human-scale infrastructure. Suburban areas -- abolish Euclidean zoning, European-style grid streets, buses, local light rail services. Inter-city transit -- high-speed rail. Smaller villages and towns -- regional rail. It's an issue that most of the developed world has solved.
Public transit is not supposed to replace cars altogether, but give people another choice. A transit system that is built well, operated well, and cheap, will reduce the reliance on cars, and make the streets safer for people or services that have to use cars.
Public transport can, and does work in rural areas too.