the beautiful thing about AVs is that they transform cars from private transportation into (very low capacity) public transportation
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I don't expect Americans (or even most Europeans) to figure this out, but Japan knows the principle well enough
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Imagine fleets of AVs buzzing around Japan's suburbs, bringing elderly people and children to the train station. Ridership's gonna soar!
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In cities, where space is at a premium, this is a no-brainer. But it might boost rural rail ridership too...
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In rural Japan, conventional rail lines only carry significant numbers of passengers on express services, not local.
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Where practical, HSR replaces the express services, and the local ones are spun off to non-profit municipal ownership.
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Usually, these non-profit lines operate for the rest of a generation, then close. AVs could replace them entirely!
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Rural Japanese transit, then, would be driverless cars shuttling people to the nearest bullet train station. The future is glorious!
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