Re: Musk is wasting his time with this Tesla lark. Take the damn bus!
You have to schlep yourself to the nearest bus stop, which might be a few miles away in the next village (what, you think everyone lives in a city?). Or you end up forced to travel at a specific time - buses only run once or twice a day to some places. Or you might need to travel somewhere that doesn't have a direct public transport route, and end up needing two or three changes on multiple modes of transport - that can end up getting very expensive (yes, even more than doing the journey in a Tesla) as well as taking a long time. Or you might be carrying goods which would be difficult to take with you on public transport - even a minimal toolbox can be a massive pain to drag around on the bus.
A lot of the cars you see in traffic jams have gone directly from A to B, and for most of the route they've cruised at around the speed limit for the roads, and have hit traffic just for small sections at the beginning and/or end of their journey. Even if there is a convenient bus for that route it may be a faster, less stressful, and more pleasant experience for the person to go by car. It might even be cheaper too, if you only account for the marginal costs of the journey concerned. And if there's more than one of you in the car it's even more of a no-brainer.
Public transport can be absolutely awesome for getting you to the pub and back, for regular commutes for which you've specifically chosen your home/work location so that it's easy, or for occasional trips elsewhere in a well-meshed transport network (e.g most of London). For everything else it sucks binky.
P.S. cycling is even better than the bus. So there.
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