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Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

For me it’s the marketing that makes me roll my eyes. Shuttle instead of bus when in the United States. (Curiously, in other countries it’s called bus.)

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Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The only time I hear shuttle used is for a thing that transports between two locations specifically. A “shuttle” from the airport to a hotel or whatever, for example. This seems to match the definition of shuttle also, so I think it’s correct. It has nothing to do with marketing, rather actually using the proper term.

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- vegetal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not to add a wrinkle but a bus also goes between two points.
  
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  - Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    A bus goes between many points usually.
    
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    vegetal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Interesting way of thinking of a bus route.
    
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