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bradtem
17y ago
The issue brought up though, is that robocars might make the sprawled and unconstrained city appear almost as "livable" as the one that had the density due to constraints (or history.) People moved to the burbs not for love of sprawl, but f
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bradtem
17y ago
They would be what you paid for. Cheap ones might be dirty, more expensive ones fancier. Unlike taxis, where your choices are "take the first one you see" or "wait a long time for a called one to come" the rule would be "the closest one
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bradtem
17y ago
Well, one may be against sprawl, but the point is that you can't really stop people from doing what they want to do. You can bend behaviour with the odd law but not that much. Governments have tried to stop sprawl in tons of ways but they
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17y ago
Today, we let any input device (such as a keyboard, or any USB device actually) take full control of our computer. If it's a hacked device (even something just inserted into the USB) it can type anything to our computer, issue commands, ma