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"population growth - you know this isn't a thing right? " well then you can definitely put away your dreams of a magical $2.50 pod travel. You need people, mor
by pj_mukh 3y ago
"population growth - you know this isn't a thing right? "
well then you can definitely put away your dreams of a magical $2.50 pod travel. You need people, more people, young people to build all that. And if we're saying flat and low population growth that dream is over, all conversation can stop.
But if we can turn things around on population, public transit is the only way things scale. Personal travel pods/cars are a current stopgap that only kind of works for our current population levels. Please re-measure car travel times at 5:30pm on a Wednesday evening when 80% of all trips happen, like I've mentioned, the remaining 20% are highly inconsequential to overall transportation design.
- alooPotato 3y agowe already have working driverless pods. you seem to think there are only 2 worlds: 1) population is exploding and everything has to scale 10x or 2) population isn't growing and apocalypse. There is a 3rd outcome: slow, moderate growth at 2%/year and things need to scale just a little.