Comment by vel0city

Read my other comment. I have ridden inter-city busses in the US on many occasions and picked up people at the stations. They've generally been on-time. My personal experiences have been pretty alright. A few times the WiFi didn't work but that was about it when it comes to my own negative experiences. The bus stations haven't exactly been in the nicest parts of town, but I've never experienced anything like violence there. Outside of chartered trips I haven't done a multi-day bus trip, most have been straight city pairs. Houston <-> Dallas. Dallas <-> Austin. Austin <-> San Antonio. Etc. But I'm not then saying that's always typical, to actually judge the performance I'd look at the larger statistics.

> the on-time performance is maybe around 50%

I posted Greyhound's on-time statistics which was 90%.

> who do a trip exactly once

What a way to collect statistics. I just stepped outside. It wasn't raining. I guess it'll never rain.

> drawing randomly from all long-distance bus videos online, a large fraction of them have unsafe situations

Well yeah, once again, are there really going to be a lot of popular videos of "I took a five day bus ride, nothing happened, here's an hour-long video of the travel!" And are those really random videos or ones the algorithm have bubbled up to the surface? Think a video with crazy stuff happening would bubble up in the algorithm rather than an hour long video where nothing of note happens? Maybe analyzing statistics by one-off example YouTube videos made for clicks isn't the best way.