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World_May_Wobble t1_j1wbu2i wrote

  1. Sure, but it doesn't need to be environmentally friendly to be the pinnacle of engineering. Nothing's less environmental than a Dyson sphere, and that'd be pretty impressive.

  2. I don't want to have to walk in the rain or heat to a bus stop, hauling my stuff, wait for the bus, sit on a circuitous route, stopping at places I don't want to stop at, get off the bus, and walk through the rain or heat, again hauling my stuff, just to meet up at a friend's house for some board games. THEN DO IT AGAIN ON THE WAY HOME! That's not freedom. No. I did that until I was 30. Never again. Absolutely not.

  1. Trains have pre-determined destinations. They don't go where you want to go. You know that. They cannot solve the problems that a driverless car can.

  2. Yes, and?

  3. So put the vehicles on a subscription service and run them like Uber.

  4. We're not going to Replan, tear down, and rebuild Houston and Chicago as part of some kind of top-down initiative. If you want more compressed cities, you can either take this to Mars or wait for additional growth to fill in the empty space.

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