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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Warpy

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1. Driverless cars will never replace public transit

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:36 AM

Mar 2016

The whole point of mass transit is to move a lot of people at the same time in the most efficient way possible. Choking the road with driverless cars is not going to accomplish this, it will just make everybody late to work due to driverless traffic jams.

The industry that needs to worry is trucking. I can also see the interstate system becoming too dangerous for cars to use once all the driverless behemoths take over.

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How Can Transit Compete With the Coming Onslaught of Driverless Cars? [View all] marmar Mar 2016 OP

Driverless cars will never replace public transit Warpy Mar 2016 #1

That Google car that hit a bus might set things back a bit. djean111 Mar 2016 #2

Or, How Can Transit Collaborate With the Coming Onslaught of Driverless Cars? KamaAina Mar 2016 #3