It doesn’t. Public transportation only really works in dense environments. The rub is that the default mode of development across the US has been suburban sprawl, which basically makes the “last mile” - from the bus/train route to your house / business / shops - impractical.

Best we can do given this state of affairs is build good transit and densify around the stops with infill development. Continuing the pattern of sprawl just makes every problem related to transportation harder - longer commutes, more traffic, higher amount of energy consumed to get from point A to point B.

Anyway, hope this battery tech works out because a lot of us are stuck with expensive personal vehicles as our only viable option given the way our cities are laid out.

It’s an Albany excretion.

What a pleasant retrospective on the indie Mac dev era. While it was fun and had its time in the sun, I have to say that I prefer the more decentralized era we are now in. Scanning stuff into Delicious Library with the laptop webcam was fun and all, but it doesn’t compare to the convenience of using the phone in your pocket to scan into a database that syncs across all platforms, where data can be manipulated in bulk later using a mouse and keyboard.