Transportation within a habitiat Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Transportation within a habitiat
# 3071 byrmenich@... on July 10, 2002, 5:45 p.m.
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The corollary is that mass transit is dead. Personalized transit will
rule. No longer will a person have to walk to the bus stop and then wait
for a bus to take him or her to the train station where he or she will
wait for a train, only to then have to stand for a long time next to some
sweaty weirdo. Rather, the automated car will come to the customer
origin and take the customer to his or her desired destination, soup to
nuts. Once in the car, the customer will be able to flip out his or her
computer/communication thingie and BE at work while being transported
securely and in comfort to the office for that oh-so-important
face-to-face stuff.
Ron
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rmenich@...
07/10/02 01:14 PM
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I couldn't agree more with Al Globus' point (2). Within a very few
number of years, people will WEAR powerful computers and communication
equipment everywhere they go. The revolution has already started with
cell phones and PDAs and pagers and so forth. These devices will, in the
future, allow us to "call for a car" wherever we are in the civilized
world. The car will come to us and obediently take us where we want to
go. We won't drive the car --- it will drive us.
Ron
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07/10/02 12:37 PM
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Basically there are two choices outside of walking range: 1) a centrally
controlled mass transit system where an individual and/or committee
decides when and where the vehicles go, and 2) an individually
controlled system where each individual controls when and where the
vehicle they are using goes. The car implements the second and is very
popular with the users where available. Current cars have problems
related to emissions and excessive land use. The emissions can be
eliminated by electric cars and the land use problem substantially
reduced by automated driving.