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Why not just use trains?

• RandallBrown 8y ago
  If someone else on my train is going somewhere different than I am, I'll have to wait. Because trains don't go up my driveway. I can imagine a system where I drive to a highway, let autopilot engage or I drive on to a "track" of some sort and then at my exit, I disengage from the track and continue on my way.
  • ksk 8y ago
    We all know trains don't go up driveways. I fail to see the relevance in bringing it up. You might have missed reading what I was replying to, so here it is again: >Why can't we, at least on freeways, build (either virtual/software based or physical/metal) rails into the road,
    • misterbwong 8y ago
      RE: why not use trains. I probably wasn't clear in my original comment. The last mile problem refers specifically to one of the main cited inconveniences of public transit systems. You can't pull a train or a bus up to your driveway because it is fundamentally a shared system. In this scenario, allowing cars to drive off of the freeway (the last mile) would get around this issue.