Roads designed for buses (and trucks) also cost many orders of magnitude more than ones build for cars only.
replyIf you account for that, cost per passenger mile on fully loaded electric bus is more than uber chauffeur.
Source? You can have many buses using a single BRT lane which is much cheaper to build and maintain than the number of lanes you would need to move the same number of people in private vehicles. Even more so once you start building grade-separated highways and their off ramps.
replySo at 2am you would have thousands of cars driving around empty?
replyOr would you still need a giant spot of land to park these things outside of peak hour?
The giant spot of land could be in a much less convenient (= valuable) location if the car can take itself to and from there.
replyNo. That's false. Riders will want a car to be at their location ASAP, or they will try to call another company.
replySo the incentive will be to put/drive cars very close to where people are.
That whole "cars will be stored at the periphery" is propaganda.
And this is worse than 2 cars in every driveway how?
replyIf you live in the US, it's not worse. If you live anywhere else in the (developed) world, it is worse.
replyMy hope is that the bottom-of-the-barrel US approach isn't shoved down the throats of everyone else just when we're finally managing to rebuild cities for people, not for cars.