Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.

  • Farid@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Thank you, that is a very interesting insight. But besides sharing cars in parallel (multiple passengers at once) there can also be sequential sharing, which is, I understand, a regular taxi without a driver. But I think that high availability of cars like that, which are cheap, would still reduce the amount of car owners, and consequently increase public transportation utilization.

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      2 months ago

      Why do something that complicated when bus and tram lines are way more efficient? Cities need to take the money they apend on subsidizing car ownership and invest it into mass transit.

    • r_se_random@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Sequential sharing isn’t sharing. That’s how any cab operators functions.

      The problems you’re mentioning aren’t problems with human drivers, but the problems with perfect allocation. Robo taxis won’t solve them.