The Suburban Solution

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OneEightHundred: Feb 28, 2008; Soon, we will be unstoppable!

FCKGW posted:

autonomous driving will change car ownership, but it does nothing to reduce the amount of cars on the road. you still have 2 people driving to work or running errands and burning the same amount of fuel to do it, just in someone else's car (or your own while you jack off behind the wheel).

Something like uberPOOL could help with that though. That's probably the best hope for reducing suburban traffic congestion in general, just increase vehicle occupancy.

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OneEightHundred: Feb 28, 2008; Soon, we will be unstoppable!

merry exmarx posted:

Or, perhaps, buses

Automated carpooling is probably a more practical solution for suburbs where things are very scattered.

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OneEightHundred: Feb 28, 2008; Soon, we will be unstoppable!

falcon2424 posted:

Busses are also bad at responding to a surge in demand between two points. If the SF Zoo had a big event one day, you could see a huge block of people wanting to go from the Caltrain station to the Zoo. But the bus line will still stop every block, and still take the standard detours.

This isn't really true. The state fair here for instance had several buses dedicated to serving 2-point routes between it and like 3 locations with abundant parking.

Predictable, high demand between specific locations are really the scenario that mass transit is best at serving. It's fluctuating demand between scattered points of interest that they're not good at.

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