stoy@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 months agoHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up197file-text
arrow-up197message-squareHow could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?stoy@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
I mean in those areas where it just identical houses along a road in huge blocks. How would you realisyicly solve it?
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoCould just have a human driver. I think the impromptu routing would be the thing that works best for suburbs.
minus-squareLanternEverywhere@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago3 human drivers 24/7 would be too expensive. And suburb subdivisions are perfect for autonomous systems, it’s a very unchanging route with rarely any other people or cars on the road and the speed limit is already capped at a very low number
minus-squareUranium3006@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agodo that and make trips to or from a train stop half price to encourage using it as a last mile to funnel into a public transit system
Could just have a human driver. I think the impromptu routing would be the thing that works best for suburbs.
3 human drivers 24/7 would be too expensive. And suburb subdivisions are perfect for autonomous systems, it’s a very unchanging route with rarely any other people or cars on the road and the speed limit is already capped at a very low number
do that and make trips to or from a train stop half price to encourage using it as a last mile to funnel into a public transit system