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Even for people who hate the "green" aspect, high volume mass transit is important for enabling the vision where autonomous taxis actually serve last mile rathe
by mikepurvis 8y ago
Even for people who hate the "green" aspect, high volume mass transit is important for enabling the vision where autonomous taxis actually serve last mile rather than just sitting in traffic jams for hours like you do in your regular car.
- notJim 8y agoYes exactly. Another aspect of this is that as soon as we can actually start completing these projects successfully, their benefits will be incredibly obvious and people will want more. As you said, not even for political reasons or whatever, but just because they're better.
- galaxyLogic 8y agoI'm all for this but I wonder if FLYING autonomous taxis will be a better solution in the end. And couldn't there be flying trains as well?
- nihonde 8y agoI feel like a big part of the reason America fails at this is jumping from high speed rail (proven tech since the 1960s) to flying autonomous taxis (coming any day now, right after flying pigs).
- perfmode 8y agoYikes. Is this what our imagination has come to?
- Johnny555 8y agocouldn't there be flying trains as well Aren't those called airplanes?
- gumby 8y agoAirplanes are busses; they rarely tow another plane. Technically I suppose if you tow a sailplane into the sky then the powered aircraft is a locomotive with the sailplane in train. So yes, there can be and are flying trains.
- jharger 8y agoWhat about a chain of airships?
- gumby 8y agoI’ve never seen one and I would think they would be hard to stabilize, somthey’s Need engines...in which case just let them fly alone.
- objektif 8y agoWhat abiut multiple airplanes flying close to each other.
- gumby 8y agoTechnically I suppose they are in train, like a column os soldiers, sure, but I think by ‘train’ in this context the idea was the one in front pulls the others. The closes you could get with flying in formation would be drafting in a V as birds do — quite dangerous for planes! (Consider the XB-70). Wingtip coupling isn’t “in train” plus has always been fatal