| Comment | Are you talking individual, self-driving transit pods, or something along those lines?
If so, I can see how that kind of innovation could bring some credible efficiency gains in terms of vehicles choosing optimal pathways, all in harmony with one another. Squeezing out marginal improvements in journey time for everyone as they weave around one another better than any human ever could.
But you're still limited by the enormous inefficiency of moving individuals in single occupancy vehicles.
That kind of thing might happen, eventually. But mass public transport (moving a lot of people, quickly, over medium-long distances in one vehicle) is the ultimate efficient transit form. That's where the investment has to be. Not in infrastructure that caters primarily towards single-occupancy vehicles, whether human driven or automated. |
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