@Tel@Aleums That's why I've always hated all this self-driving car bullshit. First, we're over 15 years away from autonomous cars. Second, bumper to bumper going at 100kph, 4 lanes of autonomous vehicles wouldn't even come close to the capacity of 1 train at 4 minute intervals. For the price of autonomous research (which is tax payer subsidized) we could literally just put rails in the street for individual autonomous rail transport.
@Tel@Aleums That's why I've always hated all this self-driving car bullshit. First, we're over 15 years away from autonomous cars. Second, bumper to bumper going at 100kph, 4 lanes of autonomous vehicles wouldn't even come close to the capacity of 1 train at 4 minute intervals. For the price of autonomous research (which is tax payer subsidized) we could literally just put rails in the street for individual autonomous rail transport.
@Tel@Aleums it'll be even worse when the cars can just drive themselves around. your car can just uber itself out after you commute to work, it never has to leave the road!
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Public transportation is not available for so many decades already,was never in many many places. And it wasn't because it's not economically worth it. Wouldn't mind if that changed, but a person can buy a car for its needs, that's feasible. @Aleums
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Besides classical line based public transportation is not standing, also moves with no passengers. Whereas autonomous cars can go wherever they are needed. Instead most cars are standing and falling apart quite soon these days. And those materials you talk about can be recycled already with a rate of more than 90% today instead of being taking from the earth all the time like fossil fuels; there still is quite some room for improvement.
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@Tel @Aleums took these from @donoteat