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Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

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491 points anigbrowl | 1 comments | 14 May 25 04:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zaptheimpaler ◴[14 May 25 05:21 UTC] No.43981102[source]▶
China is the only modern country that has both the capability and the lack of bureaucracy to just do things like this. It's simultaneously amazing to see and a depressing reminder of how badly western societies are crippled by rules of their own making. It would take years to make a single new bus route in any city, I don't think I've ever even seen that happen.
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npodbielski ◴[14 May 25 08:12 UTC] No.43982143[source]▶
How making rules crippling public transport? Obviously not everything is great in the west or here where I live but I prefer it to gutter oil or play doah buldings. China is far from perfect as well.
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HPsquared ◴[14 May 25 08:21 UTC] No.43982191[source]▶
There are pros and cons to each system, of course. But I'd expect the looser system to produce more innovation.
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1. npodbielski ◴[14 May 25 11:41 UTC] No.43983296[source]▶
In expense of peoples lives and well being. You can also say that Doctor Mengele helped to advance modern medicine and you would be right. Still this would be really inhumane view of the world.