> what is the difference between a fixed route shuttle operated by Uber versus a bus operated by the city, except that one siphons the profit into a private company?
One, the technology already works. If I visit Dallas or Philadelphia, I already have the app. Getting set up (and familiarised) with each city's app as a visitor is a friction.
Two, smell. This is absolutely classist. But Uber will probably do a better job keeping someone who hasn't bathed in two weeks out of their system than the public bus system. We could wish upon a star and poof away class structure in America. Or we could admit that running Uber shuttles between busses increases the system's throughput with minimal downside.
Three, flexibility. These shuttles will automate before any union-controlled public bus system in America has a chance to.
It's not just classist. It's deeply obnoxious looking down on your fellow man. Shame on you. People that have views like yours do not deserve to live in a society where all the shit jobs are done by lowly paid other people. You should have to clean your own sewers and repair your own roads and look after your own public parks, and all the thousand and one jobs that just happen by those people that might end up smelly as a result.
One, the technology already works. If I visit Dallas or Philadelphia, I already have the app. Getting set up (and familiarised) with each city's app as a visitor is a friction.
Two, smell. This is absolutely classist. But Uber will probably do a better job keeping someone who hasn't bathed in two weeks out of their system than the public bus system. We could wish upon a star and poof away class structure in America. Or we could admit that running Uber shuttles between busses increases the system's throughput with minimal downside.
Three, flexibility. These shuttles will automate before any union-controlled public bus system in America has a chance to.