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Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by joshuaheard on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:30PM (#15716319)
Agreed, but Denver is not as dense as Manhattan. You also have to take into account that autonomous electric cars will be much smaller than regular cars (see the Google Gumdrop autonomous car), and traffic can flow at a much higher rate, since they don't need a following distance for human reaction times.
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Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by vorotato on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:43PM (#15716428)
that's not necessarily true, people will still like their large cars. Gas cars aren't big because they run on gas, because motorcycles run on gas and are very small. Also the cars would have to be smaller than motorcycles for them to reach the density of a bus at which point they will cease to be comfortable.
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Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by denverresident on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:08PM (#15716637)
People get large cars so they can drive around in large cars and use 1/5th the available space every other month. I don't think it's related to technology at all.
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