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Said ugly culture is separately going away because of online delivery, which still requires an infrastructure of pavement on its own. The loud engine noise is a

Said ugly culture is separately going away because of online delivery, which still requires an infrastructure of pavement on its own. The loud engine noise is also gone with EVs. You mentioned safety. It's a matter of personal risk profile whether you consider cars to be dangerous, even at status quo (autonomous vehicles with coordinated motion planning have the chance to render accidents a thing of the past). RE potential terrorism, should we consider banning airplanes and busses as well?

nwah1 6y ago
Transportation and logistics could've been handled differently. There was an article recently about pneumatic tube delivery of mail. Trash collection, package delivery, etc could've been delivered more like water. Via pipes. You wouldn't want to be in a situation where you empty bedpans by lugging excrement to the curb so that a sewage truck can pick it up. We thankfully have pipes for that. We should expand the use of pipes. Imagine not needing to dispose of cardboard boxes all the time after receiving every package. It arrives in a canister, which returns itself.
- babesh 6y ago
  The water and sewage pipes work due to gravity and pumps and aren’t addressable. You pump a bunch of water to a water tank above everything else and then let it flow down. The water just blindly flows down. The water pipe leading to your house is very narrow (0.5 or 0.75 inches). The sewer pipe is bigger but you aren’t going to fit a big package through it. Tree roots growing through sewer pipes is a constant problem. The roads are a form of a pipe. It just happens to be above ground and for people and general goods. A tunnel is just a pipe. The automation of package delivery sounds nice but is orthogonal to pipes. You can probably accomplish that with automated delivery vehicles who can dock to a port on your house. No need for packaging.

nwah1 6y ago

Transportation and logistics could've been handled differently. There was an article recently about pneumatic tube delivery of mail. Trash collection, package delivery, etc could've been delivered more like water. Via pipes. You wouldn't want to be in a situation where you empty bedpans by lugging excrement to the curb so that a sewage truck can pick it up. We thankfully have pipes for that. We should expand the use of pipes. Imagine not needing to dispose of cardboard boxes all the time after receiving every package. It arrives in a canister, which returns itself.

babesh 6y ago
The water and sewage pipes work due to gravity and pumps and aren’t addressable. You pump a bunch of water to a water tank above everything else and then let it flow down. The water just blindly flows down. The water pipe leading to your house is very narrow (0.5 or 0.75 inches). The sewer pipe is bigger but you aren’t going to fit a big package through it. Tree roots growing through sewer pipes is a constant problem. The roads are a form of a pipe. It just happens to be above ground and for people and general goods. A tunnel is just a pipe. The automation of package delivery sounds nice but is orthogonal to pipes. You can probably accomplish that with automated delivery vehicles who can dock to a port on your house. No need for packaging.