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Originally Posted by jawagord
I think it’s a safe bet to say the technology of the last century is not going to be the technology of the next century. These VIA threads should be re-titled, “Beating a Dead Iron Horse”. Western Canadian passenger rail isn’t coming back, it’s been obsolete for decades. Autonomous vehicles will obsolete most public transit systems in the next half century.
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Happy to see that you are capable of writing posts in which you don’t just copy and paste newspaper articles while making your quotes unreadable by obnoxiously applying formatting to almost every single word as if you had just graduated from Kindergarden!
As to your prediction, this is exactly what the automobile industry has been promising us for the past 80 years:
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In 1939, the concept of autonomous vehicles first gained mainstream exposure at GM’s Futurama exhibit. The exhibit was a vision for 20 years into the future that contained an automated highway system and illustrated how the United States could be connected in a widespread network of highways and freeways.
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https://futurama.io/history-of-autonomous-driving/
I’ll gladly admit that making a prediction in the 2020 that this will happen by 2070 is certainly more realistic than making the same prediction in 1939 for 1959, but you are betting on a by then
180 year old transport mode to eclipse a 230 year old mode of transportation - what would this world do without innovators like yourself, which are willing to think outside the box...?