Add last-mile and model for the real American population distribution. Not an imagined America where everyone lives on Manhattan.

Not all miles travelled are equal. In value, urgency or desirability and thus price willing to be paid. Complaining about self driving cars is asinine. The scales are wrong. The problems are wrong. The places are wrong.

> nothing in this discussion is even remotely new for transit advocates like myself

I mean, exactly. We’re urbanising without commensurate increases in public transit. Deployment or use. Perhaps that hints at a change being in order.