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  1. 09-10-2014, 10:59 AM #1
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    The transportation Thread... All things especially innovative wrt Transportation

    Learning about transportation and its innovations is one thing I am really interested in. Anyway, after listening to this podcast last december I came home and told my wife that our youngest child (18 months old) would probably never drive a car. So this thread is dedicated to cool innovations in transportation.

    Honda's self driving car

    Cadillac bringing the industry closer

    Hyperloop one year later ... damn how I wish this would happen.

    Super planes (size not speed) will hopefully reduce cross continent flights

    Faster planes.

    Hypersonic travel

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    New Jersey Is Testing Solar-Power Commuter Pods

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    Gondolas in New York City

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    How autonomous cars will shape the future

    By the way they will all be here by 2025. My youngest daughter (2 now) will probably never drive a car.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
    How autonomous cars will shape the future

    By the way they will all be here by 2025. My youngest daughter (2 now) will probably never drive a car.
    This is awesome. I have a bet with a friend most people will be driving autonomous cars by 2040. I'm cashing in!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
    How autonomous cars will shape the future

    By the way they will all be here by 2025. My youngest daughter (2 now) will probably never drive a car.
    The effects of the autonomous car movement will be staggering. PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the number of vehicles on the road will be reduced by 99%, estimating that the fleet will fall from 245 million to just 2.4 million vehicles.
    99% drop in cars? Yeah right. Just the farmers, cowboys, and construction workers out west would drive that many trucks alone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sullyute View Post
    99% drop in cars? Yeah right. Just the farmers, cowboys, and construction workers out west would drive that many trucks alone.
    Construction workers? By then all buildings and houses will be 3d printed
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    This may be more recreational than true transportation, but this looks like a lot of fun. Has a range of 5-7 miles on one charge, charges in 20 minutes, and goes up to 19 miles per hour. cost is a bit steep at $1500.00.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisrenrut View Post
    This may be more recreational than true transportation, but this looks like a lot of fun. Has a range of 5-7 miles on one charge, charges in 20 minutes, and goes up to 19 miles per hour. cost is a bit steep at $1500.00.


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    Disneyland had an autonomous "car" decades ago, it was called the People Mover. Todays autonomous "cars" are likewise more like trains. They rely on a several billion dollar GPS satellite system, very expensive conventional roads, etc. They can NOT handle constructions zones, dirt roads (which I drive on regularly to go surfing at Vandenberg AFB, CA), they can not handle bad weather conditions, can not deduce whether a puddle is 5 inches deep or 5 feet deep. Etc., etc.

    Many people have an almost religious like allegiance to digital technology. I wrote a graduate school paper on the limits of digital AI and The Singularity. A brief synopsis, a digital system can no more perform what a human brain does than it can perform lactation. Heck, scientists do not even understand how a worm "thinks".

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    I am looking at possibly buying a couple of electric bikes can be used on light trail riding and cruising the boardwalk. Anyone have experience with electric bikes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by UTEopia View Post
    I am looking at possibly buying a couple of electric bikes can be used on light trail riding and cruising the boardwalk. Anyone have experience with electric bikes?
    The U has a thing about just this today and throughout the month so you can test ride and get discounts on purchasing electric bikes:

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTEopia View Post
    I am looking at possibly buying a couple of electric bikes can be used on light trail riding and cruising the boardwalk. Anyone have experience with electric bikes?
    My only experience is getting passed by them, the rider looking happy and refreshed while I sweat and struggle. . We’ve thought about getting one for my wife so we could ride together at a pace we both can live with. But they are expensive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocker Ute View Post
    The U has a thing about just this today and throughout the month so you can test ride and get discounts on purchasing electric bikes:

    https://unews.utah.edu/u-bike-electric-program/


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