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when generations to mash, january 14 on d, w. the everywhere you look, the world is in the midst of a thrilling transit revolution. thanks to hyper loop traveling from city to city is faster and last year than ever, practically rendering planes obsolete. getting around town also, could it be easier? thanks to the boring companies ubiquitous tunnel networks. and you can always spread your wings and hop in an economist, electric flying cubicle. if you're really in a rush, wait, we can't do any of those things. this is the world we should be living in, according to transit plans drawn up by tex, brightest mind. but this is what these projects looks like in real life when they're finished the mix for the few while the rest of us are still stuck in

traffic. so why do these tech companies want to change? transit and wire, their solutions so often elect transportation issues are nothing new. if you think of just the modes of transportation throughout history, this going from um, you know, horse and buggy to rail, to ocean going vessels, steam liners, air ships. so there's always been something new to try out that would solve some of the problems of the old. i want to tell you, researchers trans and urban planning, you see all there. and each one of those newest things has introduced into a new problems. today's transportation mix is no exception. the biggest problem is that roughly a quarter of global energy related carbon emissions are linked to transport. but

that's just one of many. so there are a lot of problems with how people get around right. harris marks writes about technology, including a book about silicon valley and transportation. you know, many people have the experience of being stuck in traffic. and of course, people don't like that. there's also the high cost of kind of owning a vehicle if you have to do that in order to get around. and unfortunately, you know, in many places, transit services are not always the most accessible. the most efficient, even the most affordable, while excess ability and climate might sound important. our tech saviors focus is elsewhere. this, but this fundamentally is what we're trying to solve. you'll be, we've all been there many, many times. we must so solve, solve this whole just right traffic situation, traffic chance or so universally hated that there's a bunch of jokes and move all these issues. mean, there's certainly plenty of room for improvement. little wonder that tech chance

jumped onto the transit bandwagon. big tech has reshape the economy and flashy hype, fuel presentation, no matter what their substance were. key, just because silicon valley and because of the tech industry has been so ascended for the past decade or to. there's a real desire to see these companies address these problems. and so instead of kind of really mundane things like invest in bosses and uh, you know, think about how we distribute street space and maybe make some cycle lane. it sounds a lot more attractive to say all the cars are going to start driving themselves and we're going to make this new tunnel system for transportation. and we're going to have flying car is finally investors and media, laptop, high tech, exciting new transit projects. and the company you saw potential to people spend loads on transit in the us. for instance, 16 percent of household spending goes to transportation. second only to house it's a major part of the economy. so when you look at the total addressable market for

transportation innovation, it looks huge. it's, it's much bigger than like a dating app or, you know, a new way to find a hotel room in a city. and so that can be very attractive. and while investors currently only have promises not results to go on, it hasn't stopped them. for example, you're on muskets, the boring company name, not because they bore tunnels, get it, picked up $675000000.00 in private capital in 2022. local governments have also jumped on board mosque announced deals, promising to build underground tunnels for high speed travel in chicago and fort lauderdale in 2018 in 2021. neither have been built. tech firms see that many regions and cities liked adequate public transit and have moved in places where cities are still growing. and there's a rapid urban position. you can use shared mobility as a way of as

a transitionary service and as a way of feeling gaps in the, in the infrastructure. part of the appeal these projects have for local governments is that private tech based solutions could help avoid fears, political debates and heavy spending usually needed for infrastructure. these problems would require us to have some difficult conversations about how we, you know, distribute resources right now. how we, you know, how we distribute road space, you know, the types of investments we want to make an automobile versus transit versus cycling. you know, all these difficult questions techs can solve all our problems. so we can just bypass the n less political debates, especially convenient in these gridlocked polarized times. so the high train is rolling, the venture capital is blowing, everything is fine and dandy to a tech companies have to deliver on their spectacular promises. one of the most glaring examples is hyperlinks. a high speed above ground vacuum to popularized by

musk in 2013 and pursued by a number of firms billionaire richard branson, the owner of the virgin, also got it on the fund or anything that can transport people with clean energy. fos efficiently safely is critical, right? now, and i believe that all the criteria you could possibly want in 2017 and a virgin hyper loop announced plans to build overground vacuum tubes that would hurdle people at 670 miles an hour across the us, india in the middle east. but the closest these came to materializing was a single crude test in 2020, which reached about 100 miles an hour. far less than promised. costs were nearly $10.00 times higher and the test drive transported just to passengers instead of the problem is $28.00. in fact, france and recently removed the name version from the hyper did companies you'd invested in, not everything and norseman. but even with all of this disappointment,

branson's company came closest to the initial promises must because pretty much a band and the idea. and even if the technology worked before hyper luke takes over california, at least it will have to clear a major hurdle as demonstrated by the states never ending high speed rail treacherous. the high speed rail project has had an immense challenge with access to land and land acquisition, in spite of government authorities and to do a private lay sponsored project that had some level of controversy and didn't have access to the, the governments of the domain authority we'd be prohibitively difficult, hon. deterred by the failure of is above ground travel project bus optic to go underground with this boring come. first, the pledge to dig elaborate systems of tunnels under cities where autonomously dripping pods with 16 passengers would sit around with ease. that became

a pledge to develop a system of so called skates, which would sweep electric cars across town at speeds of up to 130 miles and then work which became a one way tunnel to drive test was through at about 40 miles an hour called the loop, which at least exists, you sold the systems to a bunch of cities around the united states, and in most cases they have not materialized. and then the only place where it, where it has, which is las vegas. it's a short tunnel that connects up the convention center, and it's mainly just in a, in attraction for tesla's, you know, it's a way to sell teslas. it's not really affecting traffic, it's not really solving transportation problems. it's really, i call it a disney land ride. for it has a fence yet another familiar failure to deliver the cars in the loop aren't even a self driving. las vegas has approved plans to expand the loops. the project has yet to deliver, must victory, and has a personal vendetta against traffic. much of the planet already gets around,

do you have many of us? nothing wrong with entering that market to hard to call it something new. and then there is the holy grail of sy fi flying cars. some companies like jo be, are working on what they call electric vertical takeoff and landing cubicles. we're flying taxes. even the biggest flood i'd have to admit that these are cool, though they look more like fancy helicopters and flying cars. toby hopes to launch these fully electric vehicles in 2025. they should have a range of 150 miles per job expects the average trip to be around $25.00, meaning flying taxis with compliments, not replace existing transport networks even if they do arrive according to plan. they're unlikely to have an immediate impact on emissions or traffic. plus it's safe to assume that hovering tubs might cost a tad more to get you to the airport in a box. if and when these tech solutions materialize,

they often bring with them their own sort of regulatory costs and safety challenges or failed to solve some of the biggest transit issues. and even if some of the projects are green on paper, they won't impact human induced climate change. if they don't exist, ideally, mass transit should serve the masses. that means recognizing it as a public good, something flashy private innovation distracts from. if we wanted to do it, we could have been making investments in transit service and investments. insight plenty of this structure and doing, you know, other things in order to address these issues. instead of waiting for the tech industry to create solutions that were never actually going to solve anything in the 1st place. practical transits, solutions that encourage people to ditch private cars are often a bit boring. while the electric buses popping up all over the world are cool. there are no flying cars. and transit researchers might be the only people on the planet you think a bikes, or sex. i have one right here in the background. that's how i get the toward the

they're pretty under stated, they're easy to maintain low cost. they enable quicker and longer bike trips without the cost of showing up. so i retired sykes and busses are great local transit solutions, but what makes them really shine is dedicated lanes like bogota as bus expressway is where amsterdam so expensive network of bike paths. and there's always room for innovation, like emitting where cable cars help traverse densely built steep terrain. all of the use, as well as more elaborate trans and metro systems require public spending and planning, which is another using we've shied away from real solutions. infrastructure isn't just boring, it's expensive. that's doubly so for environmentally friendly, inter city transportation, dense high speed, real networks exist in asia and europe. but expanding these networks into regions

where they don't yet exist and ensuring they're affordable and accessible is a costly proposition that only a state can afford to take on. having to do that is that these are not technological issues, right? these are ultimately political problems. so it will take them much more than flashing animations to solve or traffic problems. let alone curb transits, climate impact, deep billions and venture capital in heaps of attention. these tech solutions garner would probably be better invested in truly boring, but more efficient real solutions. let us know which trends of technology you see having biggest impact of climate change in the comics. don't forget to describe the new video every 5 the t is a month, the confrontation, this role of the combat. assuming you're gonna apply the undisputed champion

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