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I also knock off car-first cities. A tram will not go full looney toons. And I expect that the professional drivers that are actually needed in a city will also not do it that often.
I've seen tram drivers do incredibly stupid things. But yeah, they generally stick to the rails.
Also fully autonomous subways have been operational since like 2010, unlike tezzla
The DLR has been going since 1987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
you know those conveyor belts they have at airports and shit? we should just design a city with a shitton of those instead of roads.
You should read "The Roads Must Roll" short story by Robert Heinein. He takes this idea to a whole nother level.
https://ia801208.us.archive.org/32/items/calibre_library_178.219.147.208/Robert%20A.%20Heinlein%20-%20The%20Roads%20Must%20Roll_4359.pdf
Asimov also had that in his books. The idea was kinda popular in sci-fi back in the 50s-60s.
Asimov also noted that if someone fell on another person on that ‘road’ and it caused a domino effect, that would suck big time.
it also features lightly in jasper fforde's shades of grey series. those roads are carnivorous
or the floating trams in Japan that use extremely strong magnets to suspend the trams to have more walking space underneath
The tram will drive through the tunnel successfully after the car crashes into the wall, with roadrunner as the conductor sticking his tongue out as he passes