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Re:Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind o... by cpeterso on Friday September 02, 2011 @05:27PM (#2955674)
All this talk about robotic cars carrying people long distances reminds me of Robert Heinlein's short story "The Roads Must Roll". Huge, underground moving sidewalks running at 100 mph replace highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Roads_Mus...

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Re:Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind o... by hugh3 on Friday September 02, 2011 @10:37PM (#2956309)
Interesting, I'd always thought that idea was due to Asimov in The Caves of Steel, but apparently the Heinlein predates the Asimov by 14 years.

Unfortunately, fast-moving underground moving sidewalks sound like an incredible waste of energy.

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Re:Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind o... by stretchwithme on Sunday September 04, 2011 @02:52AM (#2958980)
or tiny gears that only move when vehicles arrive and mesh with the bottom of them, carrying them along.

Would be nice to expend only the energy required to move people and things and anything needed to take care of them (safety systems)

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