XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
      
   >You're supporting my point.  All the reasons a taxi is expensive now   
   >evaporate the day you have a technology that essentially makes *every*   
   >car a taxi.  Stop thinking of the world you live in and start thinking   
   >of the "sci-fi" world of tomorrow that is full of self-driving cars.   
      
   I generally don't keep track of who is who in a non-troll discussion.   
   So I have no objection to supporting your point.   
      
   I'm poking at what I think are weak points in several arguments and   
   supporting what I think are strong points in other arguments.  If I'm   
   supporting "your" point, that's good.   
      
   >My   
   >solutions often involve fractals because I like them to scale; I don't   
   >think I've ever met an urban planner who knows what fractals even are!   
      
   I'm not sure how the magic keyword "fractals" applies here.  The   
   journey has a fractal nature, but nobody has explained a technology   
   that uses that fractal nature.   
      
   Someone suggested a modular system, where a passenger compartment is   
   handed off from one vehicle to another to carry just the passenger,   
   his stereo system (etc) and the clutter that someone said he always   
   wants with him.  I don't expect that to work, but it's an interesting   
   suggestion.   
      
   I don't mind walking 100 feet or so between steps of the journey, but   
   I don't like the half-mile walks and long waits that current public   
   transit requires.   
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