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I quite like trams (especially those from my home town[1]), but there's nothing simple about installing a continuous metal strip on every road. They were replac

• peterwwillis 8y ago
  Trams with regular tires work just as well as trams on tracks, and can follow electrical wires above ground. Many electric city buses and trams operate this way. There are quite a few methods that could be employed to guide vehicles, from overhead lines, to hip-level rails, to infrared, electrical and magnetic buried lines, and so on. The reason we don't implement them is the public doesn't want to invest in public transit because they prefer driving their inefficient dangerous polluting cars.
  • isostatic 8y ago
    You still need a driver to stop when someone runs out in front, which means you're not going to be running at a 2 minute frequency in every direction.