Re:Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles ever...
by jogjayr on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:18AM
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Self-driving vehicles make mass transit more usable and economical, if you expand the definition of mass transit.
Implement congestion taxes and dedicated lanes for high-occupancy vehicles (vehicle more than 50% occupied) and you have a fleet of highly adaptable, efficient, utilized, and available buses at a fraction of the current cost. You've eliminated some of the major problems of mass transit systems - last mile connectivity, financially marginal routes having to choose between poor service or losing money, lack of frequency at off-peak hours, relative lack of comfort, convenience, needing to know a timetable as a user.
Implement congestion taxes and dedicated lanes for high-occupancy vehicles (vehicle more than 50% occupied) and you have a fleet of highly adaptable, efficient, utilized, and available buses at a fraction of the current cost. You've eliminated some of the major problems of mass transit systems - last mile connectivity, financially marginal routes having to choose between poor service or losing money, lack of frequency at off-peak hours, relative lack of comfort, convenience, needing to know a timetable as a user.