|
|
| When Silicon Valley accidentally reinvents the city bus (349859) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > BusChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
When Silicon Valley accidentally reinvents the city bus |
|
|
Posted by Snilcher on Wed Feb 5 11:56:17 2025 https://stanforddaily.com/2018/04/09/when-silicon-valley-accidentally-reinvents-the-city-bus/#google_vignette By Terence Zhao About a month ago, tech mogul Elon Musk came up with what he thought was a brilliant idea: “[Thousands] of small stations the size of a single parking space that take you very close to your destination [and] blend seamlessly into the fabric of a city,” Musk gushed on Twitter. The internet very quickly pointed out the problem: These things already exist. In fact, there is a name for them: bus stops. When this happened, I (and many other urbanism nerds on the internet) had a grand old time mocking ol’ Musky because, well, it was pretty funny. I, for one, made a meme about it that briefly went viral, but that’s not the point. Because when the laughter stopped, we were inevitably reminded of the sobering reality: that one of the world’s most well-known innovators was proud to have spent a significant amount of time to come up with a supposedly exciting new idea, which turned out to be nothing more than a bus stop, one of the most mundane and basic pieces of transportation infrastructure imaginable. |
|
|
|