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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (13335)	1/12/2002 12:03:03 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Maurice: Thank you for the correction. I have been using prosaic incorrectly for my entire adult life. >>An individual dual-function vehicle which can zip around town or hop in the superconducting tube to go the long haul [or busy routes] would give MORE individual freedom, not less.<< Of course it would, but this kind of technology does not exist other than in bits and pieces in the lab. Technologies that will be implemented this century (maybe I'll hedge and say in the next 50 years) must already be on the shelf, ready to go. I have nothing against your interesting speculations, but a pragmatic assessment of the possibilities leads to the transportation technologies I have already outlined. >>I think SUV drivers, stewing in their own juice, stuck on a freeway would think the zippy tube units would look like freedom. Same as carpool lanes feel like freedom when zooming along. Freeways are as much mass-transit as a train. The difference is what happens at both ends. In the tube, people would have the benefits of mass transport and then when they pop out of the tube, they could tootle on home in their own unit.<< The practical reality is that in most cases a single vehicle journey (SUV all the way, including the stop-and-go freeway) is a more convenient transport solution than a Segway-mass transit-Segway journey. People choose the former of their own free will. I don't feel the need to prove this. Free markets provide product solutions that end-users want. >>Freeway jams and other traffic delays are a huge economic impetus. When there is a huge economic impetus, people find solutions and make profits.<< True, of course. I live in a Boston suburb. The people of Massachusetts and the Federal Government have just spent approximately $15 billion to put an eight lane highway under the city and improve vehicle access to the Boston airport. So that the citizens of eastern Massachusetts can better drive their SUVs from their homes to the airport.

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