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> maybe they want privacy

Every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years has solved that problem: you don't use trains; you put the cars on the rails (by grouping them together into roller-coaster-looking setups.)

> maybe they don’t want to ride on a rail

Same here: cars on rails can, in most conceptions, signal to the rail system to switch them onto an offramp that dumps them back onto a road.

Basically, here, "rails" are serving as safer replacements for highways. Every road that isn't a highway would still be a road. You're just enabling people to, effectively, "have their car take the train", rather than having to leave their car at the train's parking lot.



The roller coaster setup seems so feasible. What are we waiting for?

I guess the obvious problem is that it would require simultaneously modding both private vehicles and public infrastructure at impossible scale.

It seems like such an obvious design end but implementation would require communism :/.




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