A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
As long as it goes right from my house directly to where I need to go, take me and whomever I need exclusively, and also optionally be my own little space I could customize to my taste, then hell yeah, I'd take the tram.
But at this scale rails seem to be inefficient. PRT is where it's really at.
Honey this new rail line coming up to our driveway is so super convenient! Why didn't the government think of this before?
I think it's called Uber.
For dense cities, it's called a metro. A stop within 10-15 minutes by walk, 5 mins by bicycle and lots of share bike and bike parking.
Dense cities are just one of the many environments people live and travel in, and mass transit or metro is only one mode of transportation we need.
I know it's just a meme but they both solve different enough problems. A self-driving car can easily turn back into a non-self driving car, meaning you can self drive for long transit and switch to a normal one in the city or hectic areas. This basically solves the issue of self drive tech not being smart/reliable enough. Which, as you probably also agree, is still quite far from perfect.
Self driving cars will allways use far more energy and space per passenger than a train or light rail. And personally owned cars will spend more than 90% of their time just standing around, being useless and wasting space. If you propose self driving taxis, you're just another step closer to trains.
I just keep thinking about the automated robots that have existed since I was a child that just followed a painted line on the ground. Those operate around people, other robots and vehicles in ways similar to traffic on a public road, and yet they have none of the issues autonomous cars have. They're far, far more simple.
If a line-following robot bumps into a 3 year old, it might knock them over. It's a different situation with high speed 2 ton death machines
