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Ah, yes, pods, the favorite ideas of grifters trying to reinvent mass transportation but making it less useful than public transit, while making a ton of money
by ohgodplsno 5y ago
Ah, yes, pods, the favorite ideas of grifters trying to reinvent mass transportation but making it less useful than public transit, while making a ton of money out of it.
See: Hyperloop
- oauea 5y agoAh, yes, who doesn't want to sit in a cramped unventilated space with dozens of other people during a pandemic.
- ohgodplsno 5y agoThe solution is to fix public transit to handle those problems (more capacity, better buses/trains), not give the already-wealthy-that-can-afford-private-transportation even more ways of doing private transportation. Hint: while you can stay at home and work from your PC, there are still thousands of people still using those very same cramped unventilated spaces, still catching COVID in there. But I guess it's only a problem when it affects you.
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoAlternatively: A bunch of folks trying to make mass transport more tolerable to those who would rather be caught dead than ride the bus with the common folks. (I've met a few of these folks). Or simply the folks with some social anxiety or something like that, which can make public transport horrible.