What is the most common transportation in the future?
Airway
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By land
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We'll have to exploit the 3rd dimension. Flying cars/trains would have to be computer controlled for safety. Only those with very rigorous licenses would be allowed to fly manually. There would have to be a major breakthrough in fuel technology to enable this to happen of course. Posted 149 days ago
- So what will power these flying machines? What sort of power-plant with what sort of fuel? - How many people do you imagine using the flying things at once? Like a car, most of the time only one? - How many people per year have issues with their simple land vehicles (a lot). How do you think we'll deal with the failing of tons of flying vehicles?
There are a lot of serious problems with the airway idea, and I cannot say it won't happen, but it's extremely improbable. Posted 148 days ago | Tagged As: Land
All of tranportations face the energy problem, not except airway. Do you imagine that one day, the population explosion take almost our spaces in the world. There's no more spaces for ways. So this is the time for mini-flying machine with sunlight energy. It's the time of Airway. Posted 124 days ago | Tagged As: airway
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I think it would have more to do with practicality, not so much preference (unless one prefers the more practical :P ) If you think about the automobile industries, with each car being $20,000 (for a decent one), and then the cost of insurance, and then the cost of registration and then the cost of fuel... It's already so high, how can one say that the airway could ever work practically? So less people die on airlines today, that means almost nothing. If the machines had the ability to fly themselves, there is still a great change that people will not have them maintained properly, mechanical failures will happen, if you don't have to by insurance you'll have to buy life insurance, and then the fuel will be extremely expensive if you're not using some sort of ram jet and electric turbines or man powered propeller things... The cost of owning or using one of these thing would be 4x more expensive, not to mention the fuel... and I'm only guessing that'll be for a cheap one. Posted 148 days ago | Tagged As: Land
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, travel by land is bar the far the most common transportation in the United States. Here are some facts from the North American Transportation Highlights Report issued in 1996 (surprisingly, this is the most up-to-date report I could find on the BTS website): US Passenger Miles Traveled (from Table 5 of the report): Air: 445 Billion Miles Land: 3,780 Billion Miles My guess best guess is that a share shift from land to air will continue to occur over time, however, we have a long, long way to go before air eclipses air (in the US, at least). Posted 149 days ago | Tagged As: Land
I think the transportation of the future will be increasingly rail-oriented. As electric rail and maglev technology become cheaper, safer, and more efficient, more communities will encourage their use. And from a safety standpoint, these advanced trains are safer than personal vehicles or aircraft. Posted 148 days ago
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