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None of them are happening. What is happening is a vague statement that left a void where futurists like yourself have filled in with hype fueled imaginings of
by sunir 7y ago
None of them are happening. What is happening is a vague statement that left a void where futurists like yourself have filled in with hype fueled imaginings of their own.
The basic economics deny all 3 of your suggestions. The TTC doesn’t have smart buses. Garbage collection is regulated through citywide contracts to private collectors who are not going to waste their own margin on off schedule collection. Same with parking, which is run through a city agency Green P that would have to adapt its systems for one neighbourhood?
While all are theoretically possible it would require a lot more economic infrastructure than one corporate neighbourhood.
So set your expectations to more mundane levels. Public wifi and surveillance cameras like in Beijing.
- 8note 7y agoI don't think you need smart buses to be able to add/remove capacity to a route as it fills. the data collection/aggregation/analysis sound like the fast part of getting a bus to a route, even if it's bus drivers calling in to report a busy route. the slow part would be getting the bus to the route
- scarejunba 7y agoIt's about solving some of the problems that block those things from happening. It doesn't even matter that we aren't ready to roll-out yet. It's whether you can enable informed policy. The basic economics will change in time and there's no reason to wait for the planets to align to do some things. That's how you win. When the time is ripe, you've already solved the other problems. This is the Newton. The iPad will come. Honestly, I've had fewer greater compliments than "hype-filled futurist". Our fevered dreams will one day be reality.