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In a few years, subway and mass transit will be obsolete. Everyone will travel by autonomous cars. Like the internet, a distributed architecture, will cause tr
by sammychl 8y ago
In a few years, subway and mass transit will be obsolete. Everyone will travel by autonomous cars.
Like the internet, a distributed architecture, will cause traditional server mainframe networking to be obsolete.
Train networks will be the biggest waste of public money for those who start these projects within next couple years.
- legulere 8y agoTo realize that you would need autonomous street building robots. Cars are simply not space-efficient enough.
- lliiffee 8y agoHonest question: what if those self-driving cars have multiple people in them? With 4 people you quadruple the throughput, and this seems technically achievable with technology. Minivans and the like go further. I certainly haven't run the numbers vs rail but in most regions it seems like 4x ing the highways would meet current needs comfortably.
- kart23 8y agoNo. Too slow, and inefficient. Oh, you also need to build a ton more parking garages that could be used for housing or office space. One person does not need 4,000 pounds of metal for a 30 minute drive each morning.
- adrianN 8y agoIf by "in a few years" you mean "in a few decades at the earliest" then, maybe. But it's really hard to beat the capacity of a subway. Subways can transport north of thirty thousand people per hour. That's a lot of cars, even if you increase the occupancy from ~1 to four or five.