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cars don't need to be driverless to be electric. i'm in favor of public transport but as long as we're in the long process of building it out it's still a lot better to have electric cars than gas guzzlers, with drivers still included.
there is a doctrine here where you fuck up a less optimal but easier solution just to force the world to adopt the better one but it's a shitty thing to do. public transport and electric vehicles aren't exclusive. in fact, for lower density stuff we will need buses and those should be electrified too.
electric buses are quite bad, in that they suffer from the same issue as electric semis, lot's of weight for the batteries for not much range.
Inside the city trolley buses or trolley + small battery seem like a better option.
I think less dense areas/long range Hydrogen electric will make most sense, just like for semis