- Jagadees S
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Stop people driving their own cars. Instead provide good public transport facilities
This is a great engineering achievement. Good work.
But for the society should we need people to drive their own vehicle for transportation? We have to re examine personal transportation in the age of climate change.
Driving is a professional job. I am a computer programmer. 8 hrs i work on computers. Why should I drive a vehicle to move one place to another? Let that allow that job to one professional driver of a taxi, bus or a train.
Do not get biased with the ad campaign of Big Oil and Big Auto. Find most efficient way of doing things. Think outside the box.
troy Fournier
I live in a state with the 2nd best public transportation system in the country, but the nearest bus stop is 2 miles away, and then if I want to get into the city (a 40 minute drive) I'd have to take a 2 hr bus ride, and to get to my actual destination could be anywhere from another 15 minutes, to another 2 hours depending on where you want to go.
A taxi into the city? Snap, I better not count on eating this month...I took taxi's while I lived in town, only on occasion because a 5 minute drive costs $10, and the ride from town to where my apartment was at that time (a 25 minute trip)? $35.
I'm not saying at all that your wrong, it would be nice, but it'd only work in a society where not every person is trying to gauge your wallet, and if you can make that society a reality, I think we'd all live there. So what we are left with is trying to make the things that can enable people to rely on themselves. Independence is a freedom that so many people take for granted. Clean energy should be a top priority, so that we can stop killing our planet by running all our fancy nic-nacs, and driving, and such, but honestly a perfect transit system doesn't exist, and making cars that the blind can drive is a lot more easily accomplished than trying to change the world into a Utopia.
Jagadees S
Think of finding solution which is good for public. Selfish solution are not good for long run.
Jagadees S
http://jagadees.wordpress.com/category/transportation/
Jagadees S
Personal cars cars are sleeping 90% of the time in the parking lot. But a taxi gives 100% utilization of the vehicle. Also it creates job opportunity for one professional person who can drive us safely.
Maja Covic 20+
New York - a non-stop river of vehicles: taxis, limos, buses, subways and ferry-boats, pis trains for long distance east-coast.
Los Angeles - hour-long gridlocks of private cars with just 1 person inside, despite 8-lane highways
Door to door? My parking spot is further form my house than TWO bus stops.
Emergencies and the infirm? Taxies
Seriously, it's time we stop the stupidity.
srini n 20+
That is a particular case. I guess most of us who own and use personal transport have it within our residential bloacks that is not two bus stops away!
The need for decongestion is unquestionable. But we still are far away from reaching the ideal of all transport by public transport. I have heard Singapore is one of the closest to trying this out. But I have not been there. So someone who has that experience can add to this conversation.
srini n 20+
1) How do you transport old, sick, weak and small children especially in case of emergency?
2) Public transport does not start and stop at door step. How do we make that possible?
3) Does the world have the infrastructure to make this happen?
Tom Olson
Dubai is also applying this computer automated driving system to their city. it's a fascinating concept but it won't be implemented in bigger countries till we can consider it fool proof and safe for insurance companies to make money off of it.
Salim Solaiman 50+
http://www.ted.com/conversations/3054/is_it_possible_to_make_public.html