So self driving car brands are currently in the process of offering subscription based self driving features.
Soon these subscriptions will be cheap enough for everybody to abandon public transport and get into their self driving cars instead.
This means that everybody will be in their cars and it will create the biggest traffic jam in human history!
And finally, self-driving cars will be totally safe and able to drive completely unsupervised! While standing still in traffic going an average of 5 km/h…
It will be beautiful (/s)
The best commute transport is the one you don’t have to use.
Remote work is the solution.
It’s a win-win.
Office/computer/phone type jobs get to stay home, satisfaction and productivity goes up.
In person jobs now have far less cars on the roads every day, rush hour isn’t as much of a problem anymore, less time and $ wasted stuck in traffic.
I have an in-person job, and I absolutely loved the big WFH push during COVID.
WFH helps you even if you personally can’t do it.
I have an essential job and basically had to work as normal during COVID
I already commute at kind of weird times and basically never have to deal with much traffic anyway, but with almost everything else shut down and no one else on the road I averaged about 1mpg better than I usually do just from not having to deal with even that little bit of traffic.
And that was basically only for my commute into work, I go home at about 3AM, so even on a busy night I see maybe a dozen other cars on the road, so nothing at all changed there.
Just due to where I live and work and the hours I work, it’s probably never going to make much sense for me to take public transit, I’d pretty much be the only person ever riding that bus or train or whatever at those times (and there probably wouldn’t be too many taking that particular route at other times for that matter) and the nature of my job means I’ll probably always have to work at least part time in-person, but getting everyone who possibly can to WFH and/or take public transit means less traffic for me.
But how will the managers improve morale if they can’t stay behind you to ensure you’re working? Won’t somebody please think of the managers!?
Remote work is amazing, and honestly office jobs should move to that.
But then there’s plenty of jobs that require you to be present in person and do things in the physical world.
Sure, remote work is nice. But there are plenty of reasons to go outside and travel around for other reasons. Holidays, trips, visiting friends, retirement.
I think if the number of travels is nor al big (once or twice a week) it’s not a problem people using cars.
The big problem is when every single person use the car minimum of twice a day, all at roughly the same hours and going to the same places. Plus all the other leisure travel.
Just cutting out work commute would solve a lot of problems and a big chunk of energy consumption and pollution emissions.
Yeah, I live in a pretty car-centric place and I basically go do groceries during a working day in the late morning or early afternoon.
At that time the streets are empty and the stores are calm. If you try to go at any other time, it’s just jams everywhere and all the parking spots are completely filled up