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So.. roads. With taxies. You’ve reinvented roads without parking lots in taxies lol.

• Veedrac 2y ago
  Except for all the significant differences, yes.
  • katbyte 2y ago
    It’s roads in tunnels with small cars/vans going mostly point to point. It’s just a separate road system with pods driven by a person or computer. What are the significant differences?
    • Veedrac 2y ago
      Traditional surface roads in cities: * Take surface space that can be better used for walkable densification, or are already taken by roads. * Produce significant atmospheric and noise pollution, even from EVs. * Conflict at cross-traffic, especially so for dense road networks like grids. * Have to navigate around building geography, so for example can't support high speed turns. * Conflict with pedestrians so are limited in speed and have to support frequent stopping points. * Have no central routing and control for journeys so suffer unbounded traffic, even where additional vehicles lower capacity. * Are hard to add to existing developments that need additional capacity. * Don't have out-of-line stations for on- and off-boarding. Add to this the differences you've already mentioned, like uniform taxies rather than mixed private cars, a comparative ease of automation, and being additive to existing network capacity rather than conflicting with it.
      • katbyte 2y ago
        Most of that is just “tunnel vs surface” or “private vs public” ownership It’s still just roads in tunnels with taxies.
        • Veedrac 2y ago
          Yes, I agreed already. Putting aside all the important differences it's the same thing.