>What do you think comes next?
Public transport, hopefully.
Public transport, hopefully.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...
The future will be a combination of trains, a more extensive robotaxi network for the last mile, which can be cars or vans, and a much smaller percentage of personal vehicles compared to today. Buses as they are today will decline.
Maybe if they re-invent trains or buses again
You joke, but I've heard more than one argument about how self-driving cars will drastically improve traffic because, for inter-city travel, they will be able to drive very close together on the highway in a long convoy, leaving almost no space between cars...
Leaving proper gaps (which next to nobody reading this will be familiar with!) allows for cars to cross, or even merge.
If you're driving long distance, you get the advantages of a train, but door-to-door, with no scheduling conflicts and no egregious stop times. If your destination is 5 minutes away, it's still a car.
Every car in a train-caravan is schlepping along its own engine, crumple zones, airbags....and with rubber tires...
...its frankly idiotic.