I would say that metros in Paris are much, much closer to 3min than to 20 (20 sounds like the middle of the night).
But now imagine if every passenger instead took an individual car? That would require a lot of cars.
Yes, an individual car is more comfortable if you can afford it and if not too many people have one (otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams). But really my ideal is closer to metros/trams than taxis.
If you bring out metros, you can get to those numbers, but now you're at a tiny number of places, and most cities just aren't dense enough for that even if they're going for great public transit.
otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams
Right, that's the main downside, but there's a lot of areas where they'd fit.
I think trams and buses work well, too. Of course buses are getting closer to autonomous taxis, but it still feels more efficient to share a bus than to have one person per taxi :).
Then of course they can be used together. In my city there is a system of rental cars that you leave at different stops: you have a card and can just take the car if it's there. The car doesn't come to you, but still it's a pretty good solution I think.
Anyway, autonomous cars have to get reliable before they can actually be used with public transports, I guess.
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I would say that metros in Paris are much, much closer to 3min than to 20 (20 sounds like the middle of the night).
But now imagine if every passenger instead took an individual car? That would require a lot of cars.
Yes, an individual car is more comfortable if you can afford it and if not too many people have one (otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams). But really my ideal is closer to metros/trams than taxis.
If you bring out metros, you can get to those numbers, but now you're at a tiny number of places, and most cities just aren't dense enough for that even if they're going for great public transit.
Right, that's the main downside, but there's a lot of areas where they'd fit.
I think trams and buses work well, too. Of course buses are getting closer to autonomous taxis, but it still feels more efficient to share a bus than to have one person per taxi :).
Then of course they can be used together. In my city there is a system of rental cars that you leave at different stops: you have a card and can just take the car if it's there. The car doesn't come to you, but still it's a pretty good solution I think.
Anyway, autonomous cars have to get reliable before they can actually be used with public transports, I guess.