physorg.com — As a society, we are increasingly interested in finding new ways of transportation that are cleaner for the environment. New concepts in mass transit seem to be one of the main ways to move toward this future. However, many people (especially in the U.S.) don't want to give up the privacy of individual travel.
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deckard1Sep 24, 2009
I agree with trolleyfan. A centralized controller creates a central point of failure. Distributed is the way to go.
damackSep 24, 2009
You shouldn't troll without doing your research.A maglev line from Shanghai to Hangzhou started construction in March 2009. It will be done next year and be the longest maglev train line in the world.After that the line will be developed further and mixed and matched with high speed rail systems.
frostekSep 24, 2009
Amusing, but there's no way that you'd use Windows for something like this anyway.For the same reason that it's not used for in anything important, real-time and / or involving the safety of people's lives. It's not built sufficiently well enough to do that.Windows is for offices and the occasional game, not running vital infrastructures... Two different arenas entirely.
trolleyfanSep 25, 2009
You two are just poles apart...
trolleyfanSep 25, 2009
Correction: The *lift* needs no further direct input - actually *moving* still does......and since the lift depends on it moving, well, it does sort of still need energy input then, doesn't it?
trolleyfanSep 25, 2009
Just offer free beer - that you can drink if the car's on auto - and you'll see a lot of unclasped hands......In practice, what'll happen is that it'll take a generation or so for automatic cars to become the majority (and they'll still have steering wheels - I mean, not *every* inch of road is going to be wired at first, or even a hundred and fourth!) so it'll be a gradual process. It's just too darn convenient at times to let the car do the driving - even if you're a hard-core "manual" driver. I suspect it'll go from "I'm never going to let one of those things drive me!" to "Damn, I'm too tired to drive, guess I'll have to use the auto" to "and tell me Senator, when *will* State Route 561a be automated so I can get to my campground?" in a remarkably short number of years.