Sunday, March 3, 2024

Carless Roads

 The way to stop accidents and worn out vehicles being loaded onto scrap heaps or the purchasing of new ones that are electric is to have carless roads. Instead of electric cars and scrapping huge numbers of perfectly good gas vehicels, we could make the roads electric. We have electricity in all major towns and cities. We need electrify the roads, not the cars. Cars of a different nature would be the new public conveyors. These  would be saftey and security conscious as well as personally comfortable. Would it take much to install the electricity and the cars on all major highways ? It's alread there.  If we put cars that can be destination ordered through online sites, set for that purpose to go anywhere or somewhere in a location, it would take hundreds of gas cars off the roads. You could book a destination and when the unit arrived at your door, you would  enter the car along with other strangers whose online places to go were the same or perhaps they would be dropped off or others picked up along the way. You would have your divider privacy with cell charge options and some storage in your compartment.  One could use a special registration number to pay for the ride or with the onboard screen,  make changes enroute if necessary. Payment would be determined online using your special registration ID.  What a lot of stress and  time wasting would be avoided. If we stopped spending  money and time on personal ego vehicles and more on publicly viable transportation, we could move people to where they wanted to go without huge expense. It would curb the use of oil based fuels and if necessary might be converted to nuclear power instead. Now, it may sound silly but silly science fiction can be inovative. There must be a way to make transportation simpler and easier and cheaper. As to recreation, the system could provide larger cars to accommodate weddings, funerals, graduations, parties, sports fans, and so on. These could be reserved on line also. Could the carless road be worse than traffic jams and fender benders, car theft and car repairs and ego buying of vehicles? Why aren't we working on systems that are truly environmentally effective than seeing the widespread purchase of personal vehicles costing horrendous amounts when we could use a system based on  shared ones. Let's think about the globe.

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