Standard problem with automobile replacement strategies: The system is going need to offer some extremely compelling benefits to the user for them to be willing to live with not having good cargo carrying behavior and not supporting arbitrary destinations. So, the taxi2000 system looks like a step up from some public bus systems, but it's certainly not an automobile replacement.
(Do you know what happened to the private jitney services that were being experimented with in the early 90s? They were proving to be more functional than the public bus system, but cheap enough that they were practical for low-income users, but I don't know how they evolved after various south Florida municipalities decided to back off from them...)
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Re: screw the flying cars
Date: 2007-04-30 10:47 pm (UTC)(Do you know what happened to the private jitney services that were being experimented with in the early 90s? They were proving to be more functional than the public bus system, but cheap enough that they were practical for low-income users, but I don't know how they evolved after various south Florida municipalities decided to back off from them...)