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Every few years, the company GIG-ECONOMY The company announces “lack of innovation”, which looks very like a bus. Ten years ago, Uber introduced wise routes, and soon after Lyft Shuttle his greatest competitor. Even Elon Musk tried in 2018 with the “loop system” that never fully materialized Beyond the Vegas Strip. And does anyone remember the chariot?
Now there is a turnover again. A company dealing with driving recently announced Share the routein which the shuttle travels dozens of enduring routes, with enduring stops, collecting passengers and dropping them at constant moments. Among the inevitable jokes about the Silicon Valley, once again, the discovery of buses are solemn questions about what it will mean for fighting transit systems, air quality and congestion.
Uber promised that the program that developed in seven cities at the end of May would bring “more accessible, more predictable transport” during travel hours.
“Many of our users live in the same area generally, they work in the same area generally, and at the same time reach work – Sachin Kansal, Uber product director, said during the announcement of the company on May 14.” The concept of participating on the road is not novel “, he admitted – even though he never used the word” bus “.
Dara Khosrowshahi CEO was a bit more in the future The Verge said The whole thing is “to some extent inspired by bus”. Target, he said: “It is only to lower prices to the consumer, and then assist in crowding and the environment.”
But Kevin Shen, who is investigating this kind of things in the relationship of interested scientists, asks if the “G-Fen” bus will do a lot for people commuting to work or climate. “Everyone will say:” Ssilicon Valley “replaces the bus again,” Shen said. “But it’s more as if they came up with a worse bus again.”
Five years ago, the Union of interested scientists issued report This discovered that travel services emit 69 percent more cleansing planets of carbon dioxide and other pollutants than trips that displace-mainly because as many as 40 percent of miles staying by Uber and Lyft drivers are conducted without a passenger. The report noted that much more green than having and driving The car is electric.
In addition to climate benefits, there are wider concerns about what it means for transit systems in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston and Baltimore, and people who rely on them.
“Transit is a public service, so the goal of the transit agency is to service all their clients, regardless of whether they are luxurious or impoverished, regardless of whether it is a maximum way that causes profit or not,” said Shen. Entities that do all this with accounting mechanisms, boards, public meetings, vocal riders – to make sure they do what they should. “This is not possible for Uber.” No public liability.