California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by footy on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:12PM (#38006414)

the bus doesn't have to be full to be a more efficient use of space than cars though. A typical (non-articulated) bus is the length two-three cars at most.

It is worth noting that personal vehicles are getting larger, so the amount of ridership required for a bus system to be more efficient than cars is only going down for the foreseeable future, even before getting into second order effects.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by alooPotato on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:37PM (#38006653)

yeah but it does have to have enough people for it to be efficient moving around that giant wall of metal

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by footy on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:50AM (#38011412)

turns out that compared to lugging a living room around for every (average car occupancy of) 1.5 people on the road, a bus system has an extremely low efficiency bar to cross.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by alooPotato on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:32PM (#38015541)

buses are roughly equivalent in energy per passenger mile vs cars when you consider average loads for each.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by bluGill on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:09PM (#38007512)

Worse, everyone in a car us tailgating. If you maintain a proper safe following distance cars do a lot worse.

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