Decades of Eisenhower Interstate Highway System development have made automobiles unimodal transit
Population pays for vehicle capital and maintenance
Many attempts to turn cars into a mass transit system
Investments to promote carpooling
Micropayment-based car rentals good for quick errands
Taxis effective in third world countries (low cost of living)
In first world countries
cabs are expensive
operators/dispatchers not motivated to provide high levels of customer service (make money from leasing cabs to drivers)
Awaiting fully autonomous vehicles
Winner of BusinessWeek IDEA 2006 design competition
Fusion of CNS tech with mass transit