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by amanaplanacanal 193 days ago
How do EVs help with congestion? They take up the same amount of space as an ICE car.
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EV shuttles will come in lots of capacities. Vans, buses. But you won't need to worry about schedules or preset routes because it's all dynamic.

Wherever there would be the most congestion is precisely where the app will give you the biggest discount to switch from your private vehicle into a bus, then switch back into another private vehicle for the last 5 minutes of your trip.

None of what you are saying has anything to do with being an EV vehicle.
Derp. Quite right. For some reason I was thinking about self-driving instead...
They can go into cheap, boring tunnels (little ventilation requirements)
They can't (fire safety requirements make all tunnels expensive)
I was thinking autonomy, but you're right for EV alone.