That doesn't seem right. Taking your own car, which you park at both ends of the trip, is clearly worse from a vehicle utilization and land use standpoint. A Waymo that takes a dozen trips a day and never parks on the street seems obviously superior.

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thrance 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The waymo carries no passengers when it's driving to pick up its next customer. So, its average occupancy (<1) is somehow even worse than that of a car used exclusively by one person.

	▲	jeffbee 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is incorrect, because you have used the wrong denominator. The average occupancy of a private car is approximately zero. Most of the time, it just sits there empty.

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delfinom 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the point is it's green washing. True sustainability is public transit, or biking or walking. This is just a line item got a company to blast as sustainability in marketing. This will let Waymo absorb some money from green washing slush funds.

	▲	fidotron 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> True sustainability is public transit, or biking or walking. Surely it's whatever is most sustainable, which Waymo (or equivalent) very well could be.
	▲	xnx 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> True sustainability is public transit, or biking or walking Free your mind. Cost per passenger mile is atrocious for most US transit systems. All that cost equals carbon: concrete, steel, fuel, salaries, etc.
	▲	jeffbee 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's better than the status quo, your standard for Scotsmen notwithstanding.