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You could probably put a streetcar on every other street in many dense locales. In fact historically that’s how they were set up The problem is after the 50’s,
by opportune 4y ago
You could probably put a streetcar on every other street in many dense locales. In fact historically that’s how they were set up
The problem is after the 50’s, in much of the country, development consists of large residential-only suburban developments feeding into highways. So streetcars won’t work for that
- jefftk 4y agoStreet cars are not much easier to automate than driverless cars, though. It's only fully separated trains that we automate currently.
- yurishimo 4y agoYea but you can move 100 people with 1 person driving the tram. Basically automated. They are glorified babysitters. Forward and stop. End of the line, they walk to the opposite end of the tram and do it again. You don’t need full automation with the efficiency that trains provide when moving lots of people.