Demand Responsive Transport - Buses With No Timetables - eviltoast

If we can do multi-use Uber-routing and live route updates and live bus fleet management, we can have buses that stop where each passenger wants to be picked up and dropped :D

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    1 year ago

    So, a criminal can sign up, get on an on-demand bus, rob people, and get off

    I wrote elsewhere in this thread extensively about what is the problem you try to solve before a proposal can be examined. Here you present such a problem, and it is so US-centric it is pathetic, I doubt very much you are from Canada for example, or even Australia, let alone the rest of the world.

    Now, is the criminal a criminal before he gets into the bus/uber-taxi-van or does he become one by the time she/he exits? Anyone can be a possible criminal if you don’t really know them, and still get surprised about the ones you do know.

    It is amazing how deep social conditioning has gone in the US to create this culture against “sharing anything” and everyone having their own solution (after they pay for it) and having total disregard for those who can’t afford an individualistic solution. You can buy education, shelter, food, health service, everything on your own in an open market for labor and commodities. Nobody needs solutions to common problems, only money to buy solutions.

    You walk in Europe in any capital city and in touristy areas, and you can pin point those from the US from miles away. Criminals getting on buses, metro, public hospitals, are harder to spot.