Cars don't work because you need shitloads of road if you want them to work in the city. They don't scale. This same problem is why PRT and the loop fail. You need roughly human size vehicles for individual humans, or enough room for everyone. Car size vehicles are farm equipment for rural life.

Yeah a lot of the stops on that really should have been regional spurs coming from high speed stations in a later phase or separate project.

PRT doesn't scale up. Even the Morgantown PRT as more or less permanently switched to traditional circulation because demand service doesn't keep up. Also why the Vegas Loop doesn't work. Also why freeways don't work in cities. You either need to make the vehicles as close to individual size as possible, or make them as high capacity and predictably scheduled as possible, but trying to split the difference just gets you long headways and traffic jams. Also why low-stress bicycle routes clear more people than car lanes faster.

It's too curvy with bridges too old and outdated to handle high speed traffic for the most part. Just fixing the bridges would fix most of this, as you can't really overcome the turn issues, but there's still plenty of straightaways. The old trains could go about twice as fast as they were ever run on the NEC because of the same problem.

This is exactly why the BC Skytrain is so popular (and Detroit could also leverage this if they bothered to expand the Peoplemover, which was basically built with surplus Skytrain equipment).

You'd have a point if this were a fantasy world, but in the real world, if you can't drive as well as glorified cruise control, you shouldn't have a license in the first place. These glorified cruise controls drive about as well as a teenager with a learners permit and ADHD at best. On a good day. And now that tech companies and car companies are all in on generative AI, you're seeing the peak capabilities, it's all downhill from here until gullible people (you included in this case) come back to their senses and realize that we don't live in Who Framed Roger Rabbit or an Asimov novel.

Assuming it even knows what the speed limit is or what jurisdiction you're in. This is sometimes not as obvious as it seems. When you're in Oklahoma, for example, all 77 counties and every city and county can set it's own speed limits as long as they're not more lax than the jurisdiction above it. And if you're on tribal territory, then the tribes overrule state by national treaties with these sovereign nations. Oklahoma counties and towns also don't tend to sign speed limits outside of town, you're just supposed to know the law where you're driving in advance. I can make an educated guess but I also went to school for civil engineering and transportation planning, spent a couple years as a licensed highway traffic controller and have been trying to work this out for OpenStreetMap statewide for 15 years now.

What? No. Most speed limits in the US above 60-65 MPH exceed what was intended for the road and are that high thanks to legislative interference overriding best engineering practices, which would include taking prevailing weather and terrain conditions, road design, sightlines, odds of sudden obstacle (animal, rocks, lost cargo, pedestrians, farm equipment, whatever, abruptly entering the roadway), how sturdy the infrastructure is and prevailing driver aptitude (in the US, this is universally low outside of commercial driving, but the OTR folks manage to show even among the pros, it's lower than it should be). Most paved roads were built in the mid-20th century around traffic that didn't move faster than 65 (70 in a few flyover places), with those speeds originally set by the long-debunked (but still used in backwards states) 85th Percentile Rule, where the speed of the 15th fastest car out of 100 rounded to the nearsest 5 MPH sets the speed limit. Oregon allows ambulances (but not police or fire equipment, oddly enough) to exceed the posted speed limits, but only by 10 MPH with lights and sirens on (not that this ever gets enforced), because ambulance drivers get specialized training to drive faster. When the Republican Party interfered by forcing a speed limit increase through, high traffic roads saw a significant increase in road construction (the roads wear out faster) and casualties.

Poorly trained drivers never required to maintain their skills turn out to be bad judges of appropriate speed. This is also why the 85th Percentile Rule broke itself over time.

Because if they were in full revolt, they'd have already deleted their account and stopped going there. If you say you want one thing, but then you keep rewarding it, then you're actually wanting the other thing.

Don't have to be a Democrat, just not a fan of antiamerican asshats like fascists or white-collar felons, or as they're known when they're elected, Republicans.

for everyone in this case to lose? Like both the plaintiff and the defense?

You're making a great argument in favor of bringing back postal banking.

They're all irrelevant. Their moderation policy got them blanket banned by a majority of the fediverse (including all of the major instances).

Oh blow it out your ass. Those center-right cowards side with their far right allies in the Republican Party. Patriotic Americans riot.

Terrorism. The pattern of behavior the Republican Party has been on for the last 50 years, and especially the last 25, has done nothing except deliberately harm the US for their personal gain. This treason should be punished to the most extreme extent imaginable.

You can help by tanking more AI stocks.

That Windows is only appropriate where you need billable hours but just fucking awful anyplace you just need shit to work.