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Yeah. I've always found it strange that to move an 80kg human from A to B, we also have to shift a couple of tonnes of metal. Seems really excessive!
by osrec 9y ago
Yeah. I've always found it strange that to move an 80kg human from A to B, we also have to shift a couple of tonnes of metal. Seems really excessive!
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoOne often ignored thing in this conversation is we often use the ability to carry more. I keep my emergency kit in the back (I'm part of a CERT team) as well as spare chargers and cables and stuff. I keep telling myself I should stock a spare change of clothes too. Obviously sometimes I drive with friends or family, load up my car with groceries, occasionally move furniture or computers. The car is a relatively reasonable standard for covering an individual's regular use cases for transportation.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoI wonder if some kind of detachable "trailers" might be the answer here. For normal driving, you'd have a single-passenger pod (with maybe enough cargo space for a bag of groceries or whatever), but you could hook on extra passenger or cargo pods as needed.