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Re:After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using ... by A2017U1 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:49PM (#18638475)
From the comment guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Handling 30k passengers per hour is manageable for most rail lines around the world.

Torontos Bloor line does 500,000 daily.

Similarly highways are constrained to their own maximums per lane, and counterintuitively raising the speed limit doesn't help. 1500-1700 vehicles per hour is a fair estimate.

http://buckholztraffic.com/UNF/Data%20Analysis/2%20Lane%20Hi...

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Re:After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using ... by illumin8 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:54PM (#18638506)
He posted unsubstantiated claims about tax breaks (I'd like to learn where there are tax breaks for autonomous vehicles) and a claim about trains having more throughput than an interstate with cars fully loaded moving 100kph bumper to bumper.

Asking for citations might be a shallow dismissal, but stating hypotheses without facts to substantiate them is also shallow.

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Re:After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using ... by djsumdog on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:31PM (#18638878)
Did you click on the link? It goes the the article I wrote, which has a ton of sources at the bottom.
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Re:After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using ... by dang on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:12PM (#18638813)
That's true, but taking the thread further in the wrong direction only makes it worse.

There are other ways to ask for more information, that open discussion up rather than stiffening into confrontation. Please post in that spirit instead.

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