Quote Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch View Post
We need to have public transit -- for a non-trivial segment of our population. But it makes no economic sense to have a 10 Mile Road bus line. So we have to think smarter.
No we need to have real invested public/mass transit because it's a proven economic booster to any region. Augmenting regular cars with more shiny new autonomous cars is not a true "choice". It's basically saying, instead of riding a horse, here's a carriage that you can sit and be pulled by a horse. WOW! So different!

How do you know there's no economic sense to have Route 730? Do you ride it? Do you know anyone that rides it? Are you aware of something about it?

Vehicles, man driven or otherwise, are not efficient pieces of transportation. They are costly to own and operate. They do not have capacity for more than 4-6 people. They need space in which to park meaning there's plenty of land out there in suburbia [[and downtown!). The American fetish for cars as an object of transportation superiority, while not surprising knowing how consumer-minded and selfish we are, is not good.