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  • Teppic@kbin.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml10000 passengers per hour
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    1 year ago

    All these things should work on harmony. In some situations busses and bikes don’t work as well. Let’s say you are going on holiday with luggage.
    The end game is to reduce the the reliance on personal cars. Right now most people feel they need their own car. Much of this is down to first mile / last mile arguments.
    Long headways, and high friction interchanges are things AVs could potentially help to eliminate one day. I would actively encourage consideration of multiple pickup and drop off by those AVs - key is we probably want to get people to their doors and we need high frequencies, or ad-hoc departure times to complete with car.



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    1 year ago

    I think, eventually, this is where autonomous vehicles will really come into their own.
    You are absolutely right that first mile/last mile is a barrier for rail travel - but imagine if we could design the station around a fleet of AV’s.

    Imagine:
    Your AV takes you to the station, and parks right next the platform at the exact location along the train for your seat reservation.
    You wait in your nice climate controlled AV for the train to arrive - hope out and onto the train.

    Meanwhile somebody else gets off the train and uses the AV you’ve just vacated to complete their journey.