One countervailing effect should be that expanding bus service (and making that service safe, pleasant and reliable) should be immensely easier and cheaper than it is now. In fact this should in part already be true since I can’t see any technical limitation to Waymo licensing their driver for buses, and the constrained routes are ideal for AVs.
One countervailing effect should be that expanding bus service (and making that service safe, pleasant and reliable) should be immensely easier and cheaper than it is now. In fact this should in part already be true since I can’t see any technical limitation to Waymo licensing their driver for buses, and the constrained routes are ideal for AVs.
AV technology certainly has a great deal to offer buses, and to transit systems generally; I wrote about this last year: https://www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/progress-and-public-transit-part-436
THE END OF DRIVING has a fair bit to say about this subject as well!
Thanks for pointing to the article which I’m not sure I’ve read, book is on my list!