stackyFACTSSpreading the massive cost of fuel, insurance, and the driver’s wage across forty passengers makes the per-person cost microscopically small. It is the ultimate economy of scale. Yet, society stubbornly prefers the financial misery of forty individual cars idling in traffic purely to avoid making awkward eye contact.
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