We are excited about the promise of commercial autonomous vehicles but there is another, less popular, advancement that promises to solve the problems with mass-transit in urban areas not addressed by autonomous vehicles: Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
-"sort of like a miniature trolley or monorail, but utilizing much smaller, driverless vehicles that don’t run scheduled routes. The point is to eliminate the four main reasons people whine about mass transit: having to get to and from a station or bus stop; having to wait for the bus or train to arrive; having to make a bunch of stops and possibly change buses or trains; and being stuck with a large group of people who may be as crabby as you are about the whole ordeal."
-"PRT schemes call for cars to be summoned on demand, sort of like an elevator, and there would be so many cars in the system that you wouldn’t have to wait much more than 30 seconds for your ride."
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