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The author completely misses the point. It's not supposed to reduce traffic. It's supposed to make transport safe and more accessible. To reduce unnecessary costs of production. To reduce waste. To take back space allocated to parking lots. To reduce airborne emissions.
It only has 2 seats because cars are only occupied by more than 2 people like 10% of the time. Its also a highly-efficient design. The robotaxi is only the first step. That's why the Robovan can seat 20 people.
Would I prefer public transit? Absolutely. But who's paying for that? I think it's very clear that people are not voting for that in many places, so it's not realistic.
I think the biggest problem is that it's still only a concept with no realistic plan for implementation. Waymo has been on the roads where I live for years troubleshooting their self-driving concept. They've gotten better, but still cause problems regularly, like running red lights, stopping unpredictably, and getting stuck and not being able to figure out how to proceed. And Waymo seems significantly ahead of Tesla with this concept