Most successful transit systems are a short couple minutes walk to the train station, bus stop or streetcar. No further than walking from the parking lot to your destination in a lot of cases.
Cars are really only 'door to door' in the suburbs when commuting between two homes with driveways. Otherwise they're no different than a decent transit system.
I do find it interesting how people automatically assume all driving is door-to-door, forget about parking lots, forget about finding street parking, etc. and immediately talk about how transit can't work based on the same issue.
> even trains with drivers can be considered close to driver less vs people driving cars
In a sense. That also applies to planes and cruise ships. All remain labor constrained.
That’s the vision of self-driving cars. Door to door and scale free. Trains approximate that for the masses, most of the time. But they don’t for the long tail.
onethought|2 years ago
arcticbull|2 years ago
Cars are really only 'door to door' in the suburbs when commuting between two homes with driveways. Otherwise they're no different than a decent transit system.
I do find it interesting how people automatically assume all driving is door-to-door, forget about parking lots, forget about finding street parking, etc. and immediately talk about how transit can't work based on the same issue.
JumpCrisscross|2 years ago
In a sense. That also applies to planes and cruise ships. All remain labor constrained.
That’s the vision of self-driving cars. Door to door and scale free. Trains approximate that for the masses, most of the time. But they don’t for the long tail.