The most viable sort of transit in most of the USA (by land area) would be something like Uber. Unfortunately as Uber demonstrates it is very difficult to get customers to pay enough to actually cover the costs of operating it.
Kinda missing my point here: the push for automation there is because the business model isn't holding up when you have to pay wages for drivers in addition to the costs of operating and maintaining the vehicles
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not at all--just because drivers are too expensive to pay doesn't mean trying to run it with robots is any cheaper! it would only be cheaper if they were simultaneously as reliable as humans and cost less to maintain, which is far from being demonstrated
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nothing inevitable about it man, people said fusion power was inevitable but here we all are without it
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they assume that autonomous cars will a) work and b) be cheap if either assumption doesn't pan out, then Uber etc will never really be viable
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I've heard a lot of employee horror stories; the business implications are that the market can't actually bear the costs of the service. The gap between what people will pay and what it costs comes out of driver pay right now, hence the horror stories; they hope AVs will fix it
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