Image transcript:

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.”

  • Hikiru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The more people try to “innovate” transportation the closer it gets to going back to trains. Driverless cars, for efficiency have them communicate with eachother, to accelerate and brake at the same time, for example. That’s just less efficient and more expensive trains.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      There’s a massive failure condition for your example - sure, autonomous cars behave like trains when they communicate with each other to sync acceleration and deceleration, but they can also separate themselves from the collective to drive you to the door of your home. In the train metaphor this would be like you sitting in your own train car, and the train car separating from the rest of it and driving you to your doorstep.

      • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        oh no, if only someone hadn’t centralized like, a point, say, a station, where people could conveniently access the train of cars…

        they could call it a… hmm… TRAIN STATION?

      • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        You reinvented switches.

        I think you miss part of transportation system that says system. It’s more than one element.