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MindPilot

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4. The private automobile IS mass transit.
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 03:10 PM
Apr 2017

As soon as you can figure out a way to get around that doesn't involve a smelly crowded bus that takes an hour to make a ten-minutes trip or poorly maintained train that doesn't go anywhere useful, I'm on board, but until then I'm going to be needing a car to get around.

There are vast areas--especially in the west--that are only accessible by car.

How about putting some effort into upgrading the hundred-year-old signaling and traffic routing? Instead you advocate going backward toward the worst modern transportation imaginable, the city bus. I hope soon to see autonomous vehicles moving down the highway in clusters at well into triple digit speeds.

I can go out and wander about the parking lot at work and find at least half a dozen Teslas. Trust me, none of my coworkers fall into the "rich right-wing asshole" category.



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