Here's one more for "trains is to transportation what crabs are to evolution '
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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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!
Revolutionary! Too radical, it will never work!
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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.
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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!
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What’s that other meme? The one about how every few years tech bros reinvent public transportation.
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
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Yes, ~~like public~~ transport
Public transportation but expensive.
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.
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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).
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Adam Something has a done a whole bunch of videos ridiculing tech bro reinventions of bus and train, great stuff.
Is this not just a bus but worse?
Busses are going to get privatized....that's this administrations goal, privatize everything.
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Theoretically they can use the data collected from the app to optimize pickup locations and routes and be flexible as demand changes, since people can be directed to new pickup locations easily. Whether or not that's true and how much it costs will be the deciding factor.
Great, so a more expensive less reliable bus. Perfect
Is this not just a bus but worse?
Don't forget to tip!
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.
Pesero is another.
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i'm guessing it would serve routes not already served by busses. in which case it could be useful if you can share them.
it used to annoy me that i couldnt get a bus to the next town over from my hometown when i lived there. i had to get a bus 40 mins in the wrong direction and get a second bus from there into work.
Well you don't have to ride with the poors and you pay direct instead of taxes for maximum inefficiency of money for value.
And more expensive too!
Next step: reinvent the train, but call it uber on steel or uber on rails
In the UK uber sell train tickets (not that they run the trains)
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! 🥰🥰🥰
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