Dropping a self driving car on existing roads is much cheaper than building out infrastructure for trains and subs, especially in most of car dependent America. Also there are still plenty of situations where those can’t get close enough to your source/destination especially if you’re elderly or disabled.
I’m not against railed transportation (quite the opposite, I love it and would like to see more of it), but I also am pragmatic and understand that, just like a train would never be used to cross the ocean, there are quite a few applications where rails don’t solve the “last mile” problem.
Dropping a self driving car on existing roads is much cheaper than building out infrastructure for trains and subs, especially in most of car dependent America. Also there are still plenty of situations where those can’t get close enough to your source/destination especially if you’re elderly or disabled.
I’m not against railed transportation (quite the opposite, I love it and would like to see more of it), but I also am pragmatic and understand that, just like a train would never be used to cross the ocean, there are quite a few applications where rails don’t solve the “last mile” problem.
I don’t think we should solve the last mile problem until the very very trivial first 80% is solved.
Agree that cars are easier to slap down of course.