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Originally Posted by corporatejay
But not far enough to realize that self driving cars will be here soon and a BRT could probably be more effective and less expensive.
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Not everyone can afford a car that they have to drive, never mind one that drives itself.
Also, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have much faith in a city council that said "you know what, we're not going to do anything, let's just wait for self driving cars, they'll fix all our problems for us." I mean, why do anything today when future technologies will solve all our problems?
P.S. Self Driving cars are supposed to be here...when exactly? The Guardian predicted we'd all be in self driving cars by 2015. Business Insider predicted 2020, and I don't see many of them on the road. We're just supposed to wait I suppose?
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A year ago, Detroit and Silicon Valley had visions of putting thousands of self-driving taxis on the road in 2019, ushering in an age of driverless cars.
Most of those cars have yet to arrive — and it is likely to be years before they do. Several carmakers and technology companies have concluded that making autonomous vehicles is going to be harder, slower and costlier than they thought.
“We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles,” Ford’s chief executive, Jim Hackett, said at the Detroit Economic Club in April.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/b...mous-cars.html
Hmm. Seems like a good bet. Cancel the Green Line, let's put all the money into TSLA instead!