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Subways could very well become obsolete by the time they are finished. uber-enabled driverless cars the size of a smart car could drive bumper to bumper door ha
by rdlecler1 11y ago
Subways could very well become obsolete by the time they are finished. uber-enabled driverless cars the size of a smart car could drive bumper to bumper door handle to door handle in their own lanes and massively improve transportation, especially for the last miles from door stat to door step. Save the money and speed up adoption of driverless cars and we'd be better off.
- mrpotatohead 11y agoSubways are real. Driverless cars are not.
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- sea2summit 11y agoI agree, but I'm not sure we can afford to wait ~5+ years for self driving cars; on the other hand that's probably how long it'll take to build more subways, at a minimum. Whatever is done it needs to be done immediately.
- azinman2 11y agoSelf driving cars are still subject to congestion in identical ways because they take up just as much space and need safe distances between cars. It also adds noise & pollution, not to mention the fact that the energy to build a car is really really large (and they don't last as long per total miles per person). As linked to above, see this gif: http://i.imgur.com/kw8DaST.gif http://i.imgur.com/kw8DaST.gif
- duskwuff 11y agoCars, driverless or otherwise, don't scale like subways do. A single BART train can easily carry 500 passengers, and can be loaded in a few minutes. Cars can't compete.
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