Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you build it they will come

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because having a bus to pick up 7 people in a day is really efficient economically and environmentally…

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    • DasAlbatross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For sure. Just cruising around the countryside on the off chance that someone actually needs the bus that day. They haven’t for the past few but they have to go shopping eventually.

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    • gaael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Much more so than having a car-centric infrastructure. If you start cherry-picking you’ll of course find cases where a car would have been more efficient but public transportation needs to be understood as a whole.

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      • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m not cherry picking Im just telling you my personal experience and the town I live in

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, all three of them.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Uh, yes, actually. I know someone like you can’t even fathom the possibility of a public transit system being well-built, but we’ve got 80 bus and trolley lines criss-crossing the city.

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  • DasAlbatross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And all the world is cities! There’s noooooooooo other type of living. Your egocentric view of the world is going to carry you really far.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Did you hallucinate that I said anything like it or something? Obviously not every situation is solved by the same concept. Dense city centres – sidewalks, bike paths, trams, human-scale infrastructure. Suburban areas – abolish Euclidean zoning, European-style grid streets, buses, local light rail services. Inter-city transit – high-speed rail. Smaller villages and towns – regional rail. It’s an issue that most of the developed world has solved.

      Public transit is not supposed to replace cars altogether, but give people another choice. A transit system that is built well, operated well, and cheap, will reduce the reliance on cars, and make the streets safer for people or services that have to use cars.

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    • MichaelScotch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Public transport can, and does work in rural areas too.

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