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kr2 ◴[] No.43981051[source]
Chiming in from Los Angeles, USA to say wow, must be nice living in a modern society that prioritizes public transit and peoples' ease of movement. I know, I know, it comes with trade offs of living in an authoritarian state, but the absolute abysmal state of infrastructure in this country is maddening. Ever been on a train in Denmark or Japan or Switzerland?
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GrqP ◴[] No.43981084[source]
Thank gawd for self driving cars…
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sidibe ◴[] No.43981141[source]
I hope the end state of self driving will be buses or vans doing on demand routing like Uber Pool is supposed to be but on a larger scale and maybe with fewer points for pickup and drop off.
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1. riffraff ◴[] No.43981197[source]
When I took an operations research class our teacher mentioned they had done a study on Rome's traffic and the best solution (optimizing for travel time etc) was mini-buses (~20 people) serving shorter routes.

Alas, nothing came of that study, and traffic in Rome has not improved in the incurring ~30 years.