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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Uber is popular. Evo and other sharing options are popular. Removing the driver and reducing the price accordingly will do well.
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Translink averages close to a million boardings a day. If we assume the average trip has two boardings and there are two trips (one to work, one back again) a day, that's 250,000 riders a day. And I think that would be a pretty conservative estimate.
What do you think is going to happen to traffic if you add 250,000 Uber trips to the morning commute? Do you seriously believe that it would be workable? And that's before factoring in the fact that these Uber trips are going to be a
lot more expensive.
I don't see any compelling reason why people who are willing to take the bus today would change just because self driving cars are available. And I see no reason why a self driving car trip would cost any less than a self-driven EVO trip, and those trips are at least a couple of orders of magnitude fewer than transit trips.
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