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In other words, Uber launches bus service.

you could save on tires by putting rails in the street or something

god it's a while since I've posted "that's a bus"

Buses? Omg this is absurd

Pricey buses, like they already have in India...?

Americans discover public transport. Nice!

Thank god they cost five times more and suck twice as hard.

Hahaha this is just bussing my dudes

Let's do busses, but worse!

The article doesn't mention the word "bus" even once 😅

so a shittier version of a bus?

A more expensive and “exclusive" bus?!

I wonder what's next. Are they going to connect multiple vehicles together to increase capacity? Maybe they can use some sort of metal on metal wheel system to increase efficiency.

That's called a bus, man.

Great idea. They could also maybe put on larger vehicles that accommodate more people on these fixed routes. Might ease the traffic. 😜

What if we tie a bunch of ubers together...

These are buses

So, a shittier bus.

You mean a bus? Stop reinventing modes of transportation just to fuck over unionized employees.

...buses?

This is bad reporting, and you should feel bad

Thank you Silicon Valley for inventing the bus in 2025 🙏🏻

You're advertising a less efficient bus, TechCrunch. Quit sucking shit so hard.

Meanwhile paying the drivers shit wages.

We need to bring back Inquisitional witch trials, but for tech guys.

Tiny busses is super weird.

Again? They’ve looked at, even tried this before, circa 2016 as a way of deploying UberPOOL functionality #itsabus #bus #stopreinventingthebus

this is a bus and if you put it on rails it becomes a train

I fucking hate Uber and Airbnb. They're using billions to destroy infrastructure and our hotel and transit systems, and are literally making worse alternatives. Who even uses them in cities like mine?! New Yorkers don't take cabs. We walk.

Like how so many animals return to crabs so does the transportation return to bus

Wow why has no one ever thought of this before, I'm so glad our lives and political systems are entirely controlled by the pursestrings of these tech bro geniuses

Yes a bus but the elderly and very poor can't use it because app.

Shitty buses, then?

Rideshare companies that do this should be forced to pay into a fund to construct permanent transit along the same route (WITHOUT passing it along to the consumer)

You should have compared the price of this to the regular city bus.

Sooooo... buses?

I know buses aren't cool, but the reason that tech bros keep inventing buses is that buses are actually really, really super efficient at getting people moving around a city. Weird, I know. Definitely worthy of being reinvented every few years. Now, if only we could fund the systems we already have.

to be somewhat fair this is already what microtransit does lol. but at least that's owned by a transit agency

You should probably mention in the article that buses have existed for a long time but people with money don't like being around poorer people/other races and that's the exact market for this

Bus.

AYFKM? We have buses, rich tech bros need to go to hell with this nonsense.

Why does tech always think they’re having a Eureka! moment when it’s all just less efficient versions of busses and trains?These people are definitely something, but genius isn’t it.

that's called a bus

The bus. What they are doing is the bus.

HYPERLOOP IS NAWT A SUBWAY IT IS NAAAAWWWWT

Or as it used to be called, a "bus". We're replacing public transit with crappy private versions of the same thing.

It’s just a bus

In my city, two or three people sharing an Uber is already equal or cheaper than a bus depending on destinations.

Privatize another public service and make it worse, cool thanks /s

Eso ya se ha visto es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_co...

Buses. Jesus Christ, dudes.

BUS BUS BUS

Techbros. What csn ya do besides point & laugh.

Buses but crap. Well done everybody.

That’s a fucking bus

Oh look. Uber is trying to privatize "the bus".

Y'all know buses are a thing, yeah?

Next up: linking them together in underground tunnels. So innovative!

Wow, the маршрутка finally reaches the Western world :)

WE CALL THAT THE BUS. PUBLIC TRANSIT. WHY ARE TECHBROS THE STUPIDEST PEOPLE AND WHY DO OTHERS TREAT THEM AS THE SMARTEST.

It's like they get all their ideas from people satirizing and mocking their ridiculousness.

Man, ever since Panzer left TechCrunch has been an utter joke. Just re-writing press releases and glazing tech bros 🤢🤢🤢 As for this bit of dumbassery, I’ll stick with the bus

Goodscart

...bus?

The tech bros' ability to "invent" a new technology that's literally as old as modern cities and pretend it's revolutionary never ceases to amaze me.

That's a really long winded way to say "bus" there, buddy And when said "fixed route shuttle" is on a track that would be a "metro" or a "train"

Honestly, I am not sure regular UBER/LYFT users will want to use this as it might take 2 minutes longer than a UBER all on your own. They can afford the UBER fare.

man i sure wish there was an already-existing, shorter word for a large shuttle that drives on the road and picks up/drops people off along a fixed-route. shame we don’t already have a word for that :/ that’s real innovation

Bus

Here to help dog pile BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS lightrail BUS BUS BUS BUS streetcar BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS BUS HOLY SHIT

Buses exist.

Uber to invent "The Bus"

Reinventing something that has existed for a really long time.

They invented a bus

Because public buses don’t provide shareholder value /s

It must be a hot minute since the tech-bros invented a bus

Is it a bus? I've never had a bus driver subject me to racist or sexist comments nor do I know of anyone being sexually assaulted by their bus driver.

Bus service by any other name is ... bus service. Uber-nouveau tech firm Uber has discovered urban bus system utility.

Bus

that a fucking bus

Seriously, every 5-10 years some tech bro discovers the concept of the city bus.

Hey you failed to report that this already exists and works better than Uber could ever do it. It's called Public Transit. This particular one is called A Bus, you ding dongs

That's just A Bus, But Worse, god damn. Techbros can't do shit.

Americans are so averse to public transit that they will literally reinvent it just so they don't need to take a bus.

Oh they're doing this shtick again. State failure indicator

So, like a bus?

That’s a bus. They made a bus.

lmao

Tech bros inventing the shittiest way to do public transportation. Way to go.

Shhh!!! They're being *innovative*...

imagine if they used bigger vehicles to hold more passengers per shuttle! We could use a fancy latin word that means they're "for all," then maybe shorten it for convenience.

So they've invented the bus but replaced it with an Escalade?

Those are called buses. They’ve figured out buses.

Like all modern tech, it's disruption, I.E. taking something that works now, and wedging yourself in there and breaking it with VC subsidies until you are the only option left

Spoiler: As long as there are at least 2-3 passengers per trip, there is no such thing as "not busy enough to support a full-sized bus." And even if there WERE, public transit includes things like... VANS. Which are Like Buses, But Smaller, and still cheaper and less exploitative than this shit.

So a bus, but more expensive and exploitational?

Singapore, 1960s. Used to use 'pick-up taxis', beaten up old Mercs you could flag down on a shared ride basis, to get into the city, often sharing with locals plus livestock. Ain't nothng new under the sun. Except for maybe the livestock.

So, they're privatizing public transportation?

What innovative, original brilliance. No wonder these guys are all so rich and powerful. Where would we be without their genius?

Congrats on inventing a worse version of …. A Bus

Disrupting the transportation system with the invention of tiny little car-sized buses. The tech industry has to be the stupidest group of smart people on the planet.

So…a bus?

congrats techbros! you've invented buses!!!

www.greyhound.com

“Fixed-route shuttle” is a lot of words for “bus.”