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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by jacques_chester on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:49PM (#18396561)
> A properly-designed network of self-driving cars would be a train.

No, it wouldn't, for the reason I describe. Cars occupy too much space per person by a factor of about 11x times on the figures I gave further up. Self-driving cars will be part of the mix but they physically cannot replace the subway.

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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:39PM (#18396939)
But those 11x as many people are only there because that's where the train is.

Useful mental exercise: next time you're out of the house, imagine that every automobile parking spot, parking lot, and parking garage you see is actually a transit depot. That's what optimal engineering and regulation of self-driving cars would buy us. Of course, being Americans, I'm sure we'll try everything else first.

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