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Is this not just a bus but worse?
Well you don’t have to ride with the poors and you pay direct instead of taxes for maximum inefficiency of money for value.
It’s a shared taxi/marshrutka/dollar van/jitney … Too many names but common across the world especially where the government is incapable of organizing proper public transport.
Just repackaged for techbros.
Exactly this. Interestingly, while in “those” places the government is incapable of organizing public transit, in US, the government chooses not to. It’s like learned helplessness at the society level.
Pesero is another.
especially where the government is incapable of organizing proper public transport
So, perfect for the USA then?
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I live in the San Diego area, and both our public transit agencies have the bus side privatized. Same shitty service and poor security for years. Meanwhile, the media labels public transit as something for freaks and losers, which provides a great reason not to improve it.
The capitalist mindset is to start cutting services when patronage/profits drop. The public service mindset is to improve the service when they drop to increase patronage. Ideally, at least. Who knows what the government mindset is in fucking America. It seems to mostly consist of ‘hurt black people above all else’.
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Great, so a more expensive less reliable bus. Perfect
And more expensive too!
Next step: reinvent the train, but call it uber on steel or uber on rails
You just know it’s going to be individual rail cars so we can have traffic jams on rails!
traffic jams on rails
In Germany we achieve that with just normal trains
In Australia we do it by closing rail lines that are important, treating the non closed ones like horseshite, and only hiring the dumbest fuckwits possible to drive trains, slam brakes, and send people flying! 🥰🥰🥰
To be fair, train drivers slamming on the brakes can be good if the train is behind schedule. It allows them to catch up by like half a minute per stop which adds up.
I reckon you should consider that an embarrassment of riches, coming from a city with half hourly trains at PEAK.
🤯
In the UK uber sell train tickets (not that they run the trains)
You guys don’t get it. It is like public transportation but with the following “features”:
- No poors.
- Owner can exclude anyone they don’t like
- No job security/unionization for the staff
self-driving with signed waivers of liability in the terms and conditions
A surge pricing bus if you will,
Here’s one more for "trains is to transportation what crabs are to evolution ’
And what Excel is to every productivity app, and what email is every messenging service.
I dunno, chatrooms serve a very different purpose than emails…
Capitalists don’t innovate. They gut public services and then claim they invented the idea…
if I had a nickle every time a techbro invented a bus or a train, I’d probably be able to afford a fucking bigmac
“My latest invention is a never before seen, genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail!”
And they ‘invent’ it in a way that would make a 19th century engineer want to bust their heads against a wall. Because their train replacements are ironically less efficient than a late 19th century railway locomotive.
And then when people complain because its an inherently worse service, they resort to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “just start your own company even though you have no capital” type bullshit.
Cheff kiss
Chef Kiss.
Adam Something has a done a whole bunch of videos ridiculing tech bro reinventions of bus and train, great stuff.
It’s like carcinisation for public transit.
wait wait wait hear me out, what if we had something bigger than a car and it still had a single driver but multiple passengers???
Like a library but for travelling?
public library transport! we might be onto sth here
Ah yes, private sector innovation
Lemme guess, next they’ll try connecting multiple carriages to carry more people per vehicle then work with local governments to build dedicated right of way…etc etc…
And put some guidelines in the road to assist with self driving. Maybe make them out of metal for improved durability. Then swap out the rubber-wheeled tires for some more efficient and less poluting conical metal wheels since we don’t need to worry about them running on asphalt anymore.
Oooh. And as long as we have multiple carriages connected, we can add a walkway between them. Then instead of all of them being for passengers, they can subsidize the cost by having a car dedicated to selling snacks, or other items. You can literally buy your morning coffee from the road!
Do you want everyone to just sit there, drink their coffee, read daily news or a book and gasp interact with others like some kind of savages? Back in my day we stared at same-looking highways for hours, it builds character.
Revolutionary! Too radical, it will never work!
And you can plant a wildflower meadow around the track.
We are 10 years from UberRail
London has Uber Boats.
In the UK uber started advertising that you can buy your train tickets via the uber app. Like WTF, no thanks I’ll just use Train Line.
How much of a cut do they take?
Train Line or Uber?
Either way I’m not sure to be honest.
If there is something anyone under 30 should have learned in today’s world, is that capitalism will ALWAYS enshittify even the best idea. Always.
And anyone over 30 should have learned it before they were 30.
Lol, that kind of is a thing already in rural areas of germany. They go by beautiful names like RufBus and AnrufSammelTaxi and are provided by several state owned public transportation companies in low passenger areas/times of day. Usually, it’s an additional 2 € per drive on top of the transportation ticket you need to have/buy.
rural areas
That’s the difference though - they’re planning for cities (and they’re a private company). German cities mostly have decent to very good public transport. I lived in a very rural area (a handful of buses every weekday) for the first 20 years of my life and then moved to the city at least 100 years ago. I’m still in awe of the transport system here (as shitty as it sometimes is).
a handful of busses on the weekdays sounds like a major city for my American mind. Rural taxi busses are where the taxi service is actually multi person vans that pick you up and drop you off and make stops for others on the way.
Of course they re-invented the bus. It’s like carcinisation but the end product is always trains or busses., but if this means less cars on the roads I think I’m for it. As long as cities don’t get lazy and use this an excuse to cut their bus programs.
Oh but they will get lazy. They will be lobbied in fact to get lazy.
What’s that other meme? The one about how every few years tech bros reinvent public transportation.
I’m pretty sure it’s public transportation with fewer steps!
Now the public doesn’t have to worry about pesky “democracy” to make decisions about who’s commanding the transportation. The shareholders interests will do that for you!
private public transportation
Huzzah!
Then comes the deregulation! Even fewer steps. We’re reaching Elon levels of efficiency.
