@KevinMarks @balsoft Good on you. Seriously. Most people would not.

@KevinMarks @balsoft I take it you bike and walk in the rain all the time?

@KevinMarks @balsoft In Tucson, where I lived and drove most of my adult life, timed traffic signals are useless, because people are too stupid to understand how they work. All it takes is one person rushing to be first in line at the next red light to gum up the works.

@KevinMarks @balsoft prioritizing bikes and pedestrians is all well and good when you don't take weather into account.

@balsoft Also, this whole system could also be free (i.e. tax funded)

@balsoft 1 - Who says public transport can't coexist in this imagiunary world?

2 - bridges for pedestrians or tunnels for vehicles.

3 - because nobody can hack the streetlights. The internet is already everywhere. Luddites are irrelevant.

@balsoft That would be a big improvement in the end, but filthy to accomplish.

@Cevilia That's why I said varying sizes of vehicles. The app would just be to enter your destination and pay, assuming there wasn't a universal charge or tax for usage. You don't want them to stop everywhere, just where they are needed.

@umbrella not "just"

@umbrella "good public transit does exactly this, except more efficiently." Not really, if it is al on one electric grid. Think of it as one giant train with the cars broken up and separated.

@HiddenLayer555 In NYC, my example, how many more train lines do you suppose you would need? Above ground? Underground? Are you going to lay track on every street? underground? Are you sure this would be more efficient than a network of smaller vehicles? There is no need for everyone to sit in their own car if it is all electric and automated. A single person vehicle, if if even existed, could be much smaller.

@Aria Between cities, I am all about the train, and in smaller towns a trolley.