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Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Driverless cars will very much have a future because you can’t build trains everywhere. They won’t be personally owned though, i.e. they’ll be robotaxis. Just imagine cities without parked cars.

    • Maladius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree trains will just be more common for distance. I also agree driverless cars will be more common, but would add I think we’ll see more one person, two person, eight person cars in the city. No point in sending a four person car to take John to see his grandma.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      We already have a system where you can request a car to come to your location, take you there and then it goes off and drives around doing the same thing for other people. I don’t know why it being autonomous means that people will ditch their private cars for it.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      if japan can build trains, high speed ones at that then I think it’s safe to say you can build trains anywhere you fucking want.

      • chumbalumberEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You certainly can build trains wherever you want, but it comes at a cost that’s not necessarily worth paying everywhere, as it comes with both short term and maintenance costs. I say this as someone who works in rail and is passionate about it; in some locations there isn’t the demand to run the kind of high frequency service necessary to remove the need for car ownership. You can be better off with a demand responsive bus service, for example, to connect to your long-distance, high speed links.