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Autonomous cars are about to make this entire project redundant. It should be canceled, or maybe turned into a new kind of highway designed for 100% autonomous
by staunch 11y ago
Autonomous cars are about to make this entire project redundant. It should be canceled, or maybe turned into a new kind of highway designed for 100% autonomous cars.
I'd feel much safer in a private car pod going 40 mph than a manually operated car going 80 mph. And I'd feel more comfortable in a private car pod than a busy public train.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Autonomous cars are about to make this entire project redundant. No, they aren't. One of the major motivations of the project is avoiding both the environmental cost of operating autos on the same route, and as an alternative to the infrastructure costs (including land lost from other uses) of adding the road capacity to handle volume growth on the routes the HSR will support. Autonomous cars don't address either of those concerns.
- staunch 11y agoIt does address both. Electric cars eliminates emissions and highly efficient routing of car pods will be more efficient than any train.
- CamperBob2 11y agoOne of the major motivations of the project is avoiding both the environmental cost of operating autos on the same route, and as an alternative to the infrastructure costs (including land lost from other uses) of adding the road capacity to handle volume growth on the routes the HSR will support. This is absurd. The cars are going to get much more efficient, and the roads are already there.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe road capacity is not already there, and to meet the increased capacity needed will be quite expensive. The cost avoided in terms of road load was a major justification for HSR.
- CamperBob2 11y agoYou don't think that a fleet of networked, semi-autonomous vehicles will be at least several hundred percent more efficient at using existing road space than human drivers?