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Hmm, interesting, I grew up on it back in Jamaica... never considered where it came from lol

When I first read this, I assumed that Milo was the name of the dog because my brain could not comprehend how anyone could come up with such insane logic

Oh I don't mind the bluntness.

And believe me, if is, it bloody effing is, but there are many people who just want the suburb way of life to be accessible to them & hate the cost, while others want dense cities.

This is a way to help both sides get what they want and saves everyone here individually thousands of dollars and as a nation (looking at the USA) potentially 2+ trillion dollars a year while throwing away additional money.

Why not?

First, to highways. Tell me, is rail maintenance profitable? How about for maglevs or retrofitted bus networks?

It's an expense, it will always be an expense. That's an expense that will just have to be paid (as if it would disappear anyways, semi-trucks aren't about to disappear).

The service would open up thousands of dollars to people who no longer need to pay for cars & allow those who were economically disadvantaged by not being able to afford one to be able to take advantage. After all, you could pay for a $120 pass per month (no insurance, maintenance, etc.) Or if you drive comparatively little per month like 15 miles (I looked up the info & did some math), they'd be able to do $60 a month or get this: $0.13 cents per mile.

Another thing, profitability is one of the greatest determinants of political will. Innumerable projects have died once the political will was burned out by the hefty price tag. If uber has shown anything, that will would not die in my idea.

Second, much regional travel would now happen via train and buses as train networks expand to inter-city lines and buses take up high density locations. The logic is simple: Why do you drive the highway in the first place? It's usually to drive 45 minutes to 1 hour to a job site or college/ school or that rare shopping trip or even friends correct? Some trips may only take 5 minutes, some may have to go 2-3 hours. My idea allows for more greater carpooling. If the uber computers saw that a location had many people coming together to go to a single location, the vehicle used could swap to a bus of various sizes and the app or via phonecall or whatever menhod of communication, you could choose the carpool option which would allow you to walk up to 5 minutes to a hailed bus which would allow the riders in and take them to a list of nearby destinations. Of course this bus would be manned by a driver, but that would be more than offset by the extensive amount of people taking that bus to the designated area. Unlike uber, the bus driver would be a worker for the company & paid for managing the travels, not usually having to drive themselves if ever. A pretty nice job no?

As for actual cities (Cape coral is not a city, nor is 90% of the USA), they are going to go the way of ebikes, bus public transport, trams, trains, etc. as before as the place densifies via infill development like today and everyone who wants their suburbs will be happy and those who want dense cities will be happy.

As for the legal hurdles, that would be easy: Uber would have to pay if their vehicle fucked up, but that would just be another small expense as uber could sue hundreds of thousands of people who would drive like idiots and crash into their FSD vehicles. A FSD car would have a MUCH lower chance of causing an accident versus a human afterall.

If the car was proven to be in human control mode at that time, it is the responsibility of the driver of the FSD car. They are the one who crashed it afterall.

If the crash was proven by something like a black box in the car or the log to be because of a software error, it's the cost to the company who wrote the software.

Poor maintenance? Uber.

And to those who own a car? They'd have to share the cost of all the people crashing into FSD cars via insurance fees which would discourage direct car ownership for all but the rich much further.

That question had very little thought put into it.

This made me think about people puking in the car, the app & car itself could offer a button to state if the car would be in good condition, needs cleaning, awful, something like that. AND NOTHING WOULD BE CHARGED. This would discourage people to lie, and could even incur a "lying fee" if the vehicle is heavily damaged before the person says the car is good via app to disincentivise lying.

Finally, to answer your centralization question: the era of easy cheap loans is over, killed by Covid. The old days of deficit spending until the next venture capital investment are dead.

Regardless, there are 2 directions this could go in my opinion: 1 is being treated like public transportation. The other is apps like Expedia which centralize various local & regional services for travel.

Yes, there would be big companies that form over all this, but it feels like it would take a lot of capital to enter but it would be in the hundreds of millions, so regional companies could compete in many places alongside the heavyweights for ridership & approval.

Long story short: Highways are an expense, but they will not be expanded by charging people for taking them, saving lots of infrastructure money and encouraging train usage. From the next city, you could just hail one of the uber cars afterall. The system would save each individual person by giving many of the advantages of a car and allowing buses a chance to regain popularity while socializing maintenance costs and the like to all users of the service. This would make car ownership an expensive luxury item versus the necessity it is today for many people and give opportunities to those economically disadvantaged without them having to move. Best part? Cities would not need it. They would focus on trams, buses, subways, etc to manage their local density while not needing the additional parking.

A North American solution to a North American problem

Threy don't assist in producing smog so improved air quality and are much quieter.

Besides, all of those things are already being produced where they will be profitable.

Tampa just dropped their tram line project because they couldn't save enough money. They're replacing them with buses.

Brightline is getting ready to open their Orlando line & planning one to Jacksonville & Tampa.

Like hear me out: what we need is Full Self-driving ride sharing so ppl don't have to own a car to get anywhere they want. Just call a self-driving taxi & go to work. This would make trains more convenient too (would always have a cheap "rental car" ready at each stop so people are less-incentivized to take the highway) and significantly decrease the amount of cars overall.

At least in Latin script it looks like yeah (just looked at a list)

We already have 3 of the 4 high speed margarita rails in Florida (no need for one in Key West)

What makes me laugh about this entire things is that if Oprah Winfrey & The Rock didn't donate anything this conversation would not even be happening & I'm sure everyone here would be happier.

Just nod, good for them, more money to Maui, move on lmao

Honestly I just read the TL;DR bot in lieu of the article itself so I don't have to think about paywall & such

"I never doubted that I made this comment, but there have been so many posts lately insisting I did that I'm starting to think maybe I didn't"

Travel the Caribbean & document my travels & the cultures & concerns of the people I meet with my own eyes

Why not? Well, I'm an actual idiot in reading social situations, Knowing who to trust, inferring details, attempting any meaningful level of reading comprehension on the spot, avoiding the urge to hyper focus on random stuff (makes people uncomfortable sometimes), trying to be humourous in terms of wordplay, and nowadays just avoiding social exhaustion.

Now with all that, imagine the amount of judgement & talking down to I've gotten just entering into social events or even bars.

A trip to the Caribbean to understand people?

Not happening lmao!!!

To those of you who can, you're all blessed.

Georgia: 93,191 sq. mi (149,976 sq. km)

Georgia: 69.700 sq. km

Apparently well more than twice the size Population-wise too

Georgia: 10.7m

Georgia: 3,6m