Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them
I always get an inkling that buses (like Bolt&#x2F;Mega&#x2F;PeterPan) + the existing highway + roads are superior and more scalable than any other type of transportation, dollar for dollar.<p>Why do people push for rail? Self-driving cars obviously can enhance this (the bus idea), but I suspect they will create even more traffic if we insist on having 5 passenger cars be 75% empty. Buses are great because demand can be reallocated easily.<p>Imagine a place like New York, where buses can go out to the suburbs and bring people into the city and the evening and morning (say, 50% of the fleet), and during the day 90% of the fleet stays in the city doing intra-city transportation.<p>Rail doesn&#x27;t have this flexibility.<p>EDIT: Rail definitely has its place, but you almost never hear anyone starting a bus project. Just curious to why there&#x27;s relatively little mention of buses in the public transportation (new project) realm.<p>I imagine perfected public transportation would involve linking between self driving cars on the square mile level, buses on the square deca mile (is that a thing?), rail for a hundred mile radius and obviously planes thereon.