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Autonomous future arrives, looks a lot like public transit without the “public” part

In the end, Silicon Valley isn't "disrupting" transit so much as privatizing it

Jason Weisberger
Apr 08, 2026
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After years of breathless promises about a frictionless, individualized future, the autonomous revolution has arrived in the form of a sliding-door people mover that looks suspiciously like a bus minus the pesky “public.”

The Mountain View-based robotaxi company is in the process of incorporating the cars, manufactured for it by Chinese automobile maker …

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