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Also, I predict that as the cost of all-electric vehicles goes down and we finally get self-driving cars, we'll get more "insta car" rental agencies. Instead of owning a car in a city, you'd pay a monthly fee (comparable to or less than a car payment) to a company for regular use or pay a higher one-time fee if you rarely need one. The cars would be one-size-fits-all, varying only in color, about the size of a VW Bug or a Honda Fit, if not a bit smaller. Because of their size, they could be stored vertically in an automated facility so you don't need a huge parking lot (or even parking garage).
All of this would work great with a bullet train. You arrive in a city, order a car, and take it wherever you wish. Because they're self-driving, you only need to tell them where you want to go and don't have to worry about the city layout. Taxis? What Taxis? No one would need a taxi when they could easily get one of these, for a comparable or better price. In addition, in large cities the companies could have "drop suites", locations scattered around the city that would maintain a dozen or so cars that could be dispatched to a nearby hail for shorter wait time.
>>374454 >Because in bourgeoisie "democracies" like ours it's very difficult to accomplish anything quickly. And thank goodness for that. DADT wasn't the government moving slowly, it was the government being a stallwart shithead likt it currently is. The government moving "quickly" results in things like two unnecessary wars overseas, the DMCA, and more. It allows the government to act on the immediate swell of emotion of the populace, which is never a good idea. I'd rather have the government put disaster recovery plans in place for as much as possible, and anything else requiring laws or funding should spend more time going through it to make sure it's all fully thought-out.
>>374459 >I'm saying if, in the next big one, it does fall into the ocean, that's a lot of Tax dollars flushed into a system we can't use. There are a lot of big ifs that would halt society in totality that aren't worth doing so over. Make sure that it won't suck the rest of the train system down with it if it does drop and move on with the plan.
>>374474 While true, I think that trains like this, were they to run quite regularly, would open themselves up to "day trips". In Kansas and really want to see a play in New York? Hop a train, go there, see it, either spend the night or take a red-eye and sleep (far more comfortably than a plane) on the way back. Little-to-no baggage required.
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