California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by justinclift on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:06PM (#38008294)

> A bus/tram that shows up every 3 minutes (average wait time 1.5 minutes) ... is a completely reasonable level of service for most of the day in a major city

When living in London a few years ago (clearly a major city), the wait times between buses were pretty short. They might have been about 6-10 minutes for some of the more central areas (rough guess from memory).

I'd be surprised if they were "every 3 minutes (average wait time 1.5 minutes) though".

Meanwhile, in Melbourne and Sydney though (substantial cities, but not London sized) the buses are more like 1/2 hour apart.

In Brisbane (capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia) the buses are 1 hour apart, and seem to stop about 7pm each night.

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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by lozenge on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:25AM (#38010169)

I'm in London and every 4 minutes isn't far off. I live in suburbia like most people and can walk 10 minutes to a high street where there and multiple routes at 8 min frequency each way, which overlap for large parts of their route, therefore some journeys really do have a bus every 3 minutes. And if it's a journey from central London to central London then there's going to be 2+ routes that serve every journey.

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