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Two (Non-Exclusive) Possibilities for the Future of Transportation: A Brief Essay
Just want mention that driverless car wouldn't ever be able to replace trains for the sheer volume they carry. Being a transport engineer, we are working on driverless pod cars to run parallel to cars on the roads but which work on a grid network with headway of 2 seconds and reaching upto 60 mph.
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Don Norman
Its really interesting to see an article on driverless cars from the perspective of a cyclist.
My two cents are that we are likely to see an upswing in cycling when driverless cars are widespread. I think this for a few reasons. The first is that driverless cars will make much more efficient use of road by travelling closer together, so requiring less lanes for cars and more for bikes. Secondly, with driverless cars we probably won't need passenger trains any more and there is a good chance the obsolete train track will be converted to bike paths.