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Imagine a combination of self-driving cars and trains. Perhaps the self-driving car can take you to the train station that is nearest, if there is a train that
by carbocation 9y ago
Imagine a combination of self-driving cars and trains. Perhaps the self-driving car can take you to the train station that is nearest, if there is a train that is coming in a reasonable amount of time.
- intopieces 9y agoFor trains to be truly useful, we needed to not build our cities around the highway, around sprawl. We didn't do that. So self-driving cars will prove to be far, far more useful than trains, especially since trains require long term public investment, which Americans generally do not favor.
- ecshafer 9y agoWe can change that. The current city is built around an combination of parking minimums, subsidized free parking, and a system that supports building detached single family homes and not dense mixed use housing. If we change the policies that ruin the cities and design them around the human and not the car, we can make transit work more.
- intopieces 9y agoWe absolutely can change that and we absolutely won't. Rich people don't like transit, they like personal vehicles and sprawling neighborhoods, not loud trains and dense apartment blocks. Rich people write laws.
- wbl 9y agoSo no millionaires live in Manhattan?