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Because you don't need a car to get that last mile. A much better and more flexible option woykd be robust trains/trams/subway system in dense cities that take you most of the way with electric options such as e-bikes or scooters to get you thay last bit if you need it. This does nothing but keeps our society dependant on car manufacturers and litters the road with more cars.
Did you read the article? This is a tiny sprawling city of 50k residents, and there simply wasn't enough population density to justify most of the bus routes they were operating. I live in Europe and love the public transport here, but it's possible that for extremely low density areas a scheme like this makes sense. Possibly combined with normal public transit along trunk routes
Hi! I’d like to introduce you to winter. It destroys this as a workable solution, because for multiple months of the year it’s impossible for these to run. Meaning they’d need a last mile winter solution, such as… a car.
There’s also the issue of these types of solutions being notoriously hard to maintain. I believe the majority of city “e-thing” companies have gone under because it’s an unworkable system.
Take a normal bike. Finnland is able to support this.