XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: bap@shrdlu.com   
      
   On 13/01/14 18:16, Doc O'Leary wrote:   
      
   > And, like I said, even then it might make more sense to further expand   
   > the sharing of a vehicle beyond a family.  As I have written about   
   > previously (maybe not here), it might make sense to have a neighborhood   
   > shuttle that does nothing but take people from their houses to the   
   > closest mass transit station.  That's becomes even easier to provide   
   > when you introduce a self-driving vehicle.  The simply fact is that *so*   
   > much can and will change with such a technology that it is just silly to   
   > project current social norms out into the future.   
      
   You could possibly take the level of abstraction one step further and   
   consider a system analogous to container freight. The object of the   
   exercise is not to get a vehicle from A to B, it is to get a passenger   
   from A to B. Moving the vehicle too is wasteful.   
      
   Build a small short-range shuttle capable of collecting a passenger pod.   
   Deliver the pod to a hub where it can be loaded on to a train, or plane   
   as appropriate. The same system could handle some freight.   
      
      
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