Comment by jrflowers

To put your point another way, “If you make transit unusable or get rid of it entirely, then the robot cars could get better than the system you eliminated or intentionally broke”

Like you admit that Waymo can’t compete with transit unless you hobble transit.

Waymo raised $16 billon in February. If they really need $500mm to build a transit competitor in Portland, the only reason why they would reach into the taxpayer’s pocket instead of their own would be to undermine a genuinely more useful and capable system that they don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of competing with.