Do the majority of people drive their kids to yeshiva?
Not in the circles I run in. Most either have school buses (for younger kids) or the kids take the bus (for older kids). I would think that the number of drivers driving down Coney Island Avenue with kids in their car AND with the capacity to take other kids (if they have one kid with no alternate way to get to school, they probably have others as well) is pretty small.
And, as an aside, are you (or Rav Reisman) expecting parents to stop at every block where the bus stops in order to see if they might know a kid who needs a lift? That’s unrealistic.
Bottom line is that I think (assuming your quote is correct) is that Rav Reisman meant it as we initally assumed it and you are changing the tune because you realize that it is dangerous.
Otherwise, I again ask, how you can reconcile his statement that there should NEVER be a bochur waiting with the idea that people shouldn’t pick up other people that they don’t know.
The Wolf
(BTW… you still never answered me on where you got the idea that non-Jews don’t do favors for others?)
The Wolf