Is rapid transit the best use case for autonomous vehicle technology? Peter Calthorpe and Jerry Walters recently published their thinking about autonomous rapid transit. Combined wtih high-capacity metro transit systems, autonomous rapid transit could avoid the degradation of autonomous vehicle performance from mixed-traffic flow and attract riders from private cars.

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