We could run a smaller vehicle if there are only ever two riders that need the service, or avoid having a route when there are too few people.

School districts can sort out how to move small numbers of children spread out in rural areas, the same can be done for any population. It also means that there might be some area that don't have enough mass for mass transit.

But right now we have a lot of places with plenty of mass that just refuse to believe that mass transit can be a solution because of decades of car company propaganda.

Most cars are not used by people living out in nowhere, on a road that only two people use.

As this meme shows, driving electrically does very little in the grand scheme of things, especially if you burned fossil fuels to generate that energy. Theres also the infrastructure required for EVs which is prioritized in more urban areas than rural ones. Getting people to switch to electric now while tricking them into thinking it is completely green will do more to slow the shift away from car dependancy in my opinion.

In those big money "glorified suburb white flight" ""rural"" areas maybe, otherwise it's laughable to think they can afford a functional electric car that won't die or need a prohibitively expensive battery replacement in two years OR find somewhere to charge in their bfe town an hour from home.

Meanwhile, if you're obsessed with actions doable "today," you could get a fleet of vehicles up and running tomorrow to offer transit services to people in need. 🤷