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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A single person vehicle will never be the solution because families exist. No parent would want their kids in a separate vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wish my kids would have separate vehicle sometimes. I'm sick of playing eye spy with people that can't spell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

yeah but think of what would be lost when the saying, "Don't make me turn this car around!" is never uttered again. The loss of decades of tradition... ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I always wish my car had one of those divider windows like limos have so I can close the kids in the back when they argue. It's not really offered though haha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah it's not a solution to everything. I imagine the standard "super light" robo taxi as a two seater with the seats facing each other. Without a driver seat you can redesign individual transport to be narrower which improves aerodynamics.

But yeah for families or cargo transport you still need larger vehicles. Or take two. And I also imagine this to be more of a "gap filler" besides public transport or bicycles. It would really require a pretty big redesign of how we live and work to reduce our energy and resource usage to zero.