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0 pointspalata3y ago0 comments

Really it sounds like you describe an efficient public transport system :). Of course not every city has that (I hear public transport kind of sucks in the US), but still it's important to know that other countries have that, without autonomous cars.

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Dylan168073y ago· 2 in thread

You'd have to run a bus every three minutes to get the same speed of pickup at stations.

But also those busses wouldn't be able to come to your door, or drop you off directly at your destination.

So I don't think I'm describing efficient public transport. I'm describing something like the platonic ideal of taxis in a dense city, but without the huge number of drivers.

palataOP3y ago

I would say that metros in Paris are much, much closer to 3min than to 20 (20 sounds like the middle of the night).

But now imagine if every passenger instead took an individual car? That would require a lot of cars.

Yes, an individual car is more comfortable if you can afford it and if not too many people have one (otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams). But really my ideal is closer to metros/trams than taxis.

Dylan168073y ago

If you bring out metros, you can get to those numbers, but now you're at a tiny number of places, and most cities just aren't dense enough for that even if they're going for great public transit.

> otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams

Right, that's the main downside, but there's a lot of areas where they'd fit.

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