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> dedicated and physically separated lanes We already have trams.

• yholio 6y ago
  They can route people from fixed point A to point B, and some locations along a predetermined rute from A to B. Personal rapid transit allows a Many to Many mapping, just like cars.
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  • lightgreen 6y ago
    OK, that many-to-many thing may still use rails, which is 100 times easier to implement (autopilot part) than self-driving cars on dedicated lanes.
    • yholio 6y ago
      Yes, the auto-pilot is easy on rails (Morgantown built one in 1975), but rails are expensive, many to many rail networks are even more expensive, and grade separated rail networks are insanely expensive. The Morgantown system final price was 12 million 1975 dollars per mile. So by using advanced self-driving concepts (but not yet full self-driving alongside human drivers), you can repurpose much of the existing road space for personal public transit, without creating completely new infrastructure.