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Originally Posted by Obadno
This is a dumb topic, Elon Musks pipe dream of Pneumatic tube hyper-loop and putting highways underground in tunnels is more feasible.
The private passenger automobile driven manually or by a computer is not going anywhere. Most cities are not designed to operate without highways and do not have enough surface road capacity nor enough public transit to make up for the difference with highways being removed.
You are stuck with cars, and highways, and roadways until a more efficient mode of individual travel is invented. Sorry boys and girls, this is a pointless thought experiment.
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Right now, passenger cars seem inevitable because there's no other viable alternative on that scale but all it takes someone to come up with a disruptive idea and change the entire status quo. I don't think the notion of planning/anticipating a post-car future is unrealistic.