I develop websites for myself and others and am always amazed at the resources these “tech” companies need to use – programmers, managers, servers etc. – in order to produce something that can be done in a few months by a small team of good programmers with complementary skills.
Here is a website that took me around 12 months part-time work to develop:
https://qbusters.com.au/
It can handle millions of commutes per day in a city – I use Melbourne as a base – where people share rides. If you press the “Simulator” link, you will be able to pretend to be a commuter and either offering or accepting lifts with your neighbours to your work place.
Obviously, my weakness is in marketing such a concept. Frankly, politicians are only interested in building more roads / tunnels / bridges / intersections because these things are physical and they lead to more jobs and GDP. In Melbourne, only one car in 10 has a passenger during the rush-hours. It takes no Einstein to work out that increasing that to just two cars in every 10 is equivalent to a massive public works effort that costs many billions and takes years of work.
“Someone should set this up as an international effort that makes it easy for a community, a city etc., to provide this kind of service and make the profits benefit their own cities. ”
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that all these “services” should be handled locally. My website above can be readily reproduced for any English-speaking city at minimal cost. I think that cities should start trying to keep the money local.
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