&gt; You can&#x27;t have people out waiting on public transport in that mess.<p>For the old sort of public transit, I think that&#x27;s true. But our current notion of public transit is based on fixed schedules, fixed routes, and the high cost of human driver labor.<p>But think what a new public transit would mean. If everybody has a smartphone and vehicles are automated, then public transit could mean vans and small buses that dynamically route to come near you.