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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts
And a certain blowhard said we'd have sent people to Mars by 2024... Just saying something doesn't make it true, and certainly shouldn't be doing nothing for some mythical pipedream.
The reason which the study says that autonomous vehicles can't work on the beltline is there is too much foot traffic that many small vehicles would have constant conflicts with pedestrians at crossings, whereas having only a few larger vehicles passing through does not. It had nothing to do with the technology not yet existing in their analysis.
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Not sure what this has to do with SpaceX but, I guess it's some dig at cutting edge technology? SpaceX btw had more launches last year than all other launch providers/nation states combined. They also have sent 50 people to orbit where Boeing is still years behind. Starlink is rapidly expanding Globally. Starship will successfully be launching Starlink this year and there will be no satellite Internet provider competition after that.
Going to Mars economically is a very hard problem to solve. Why do you think we haven't been back to the moon since 1972? Any idea?
Or maybe you're trying to make some connection to Tesla FSD? The levels of complexity between autonomous street driving and a set planned path are not even in the same stratosphere.
Why does it have to be pods? Why can't it be higher capacity options mentioned above? I tried to find estimates of cost for a 22 mile loop of light rail and only found about $450 M for 3 miles. So 22 miles is north of $3 billion? If you have better numbers please let me know but, at that cost I would say smart government should at least explore all options.
It's not like Marta is some amazing train system. I take it everyday for work, very convenient for me. In the winter It's almost always late, either for mechanical problems or staff not showing up. The stations smell of urine, people blast music, and the homeless use it for sleeper trains. The money saved on alternative solutions could be used to make the ridership experience much better and higher use.