Ancestors

Written by tante on 2025-02-04 at 10:30

"my gut feeling is that we need 0 innovation to tackle at least 90% of the problems that challenge our societies, us as individuals and humanity as a whole. We just need to grow up and start doing the actual work."

(Original title: Innovation is a distraction)

https://tante.cc/2025/02/03/innovation-is-a-distraction/

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Toot

Written by Alastair Temple on 2025-02-04 at 10:49

@tante see public transport and the constant nonsense around things like Hyperloop or autonomous transport solutions. When actually we have already solved this problem ages ago with trains and buses. Just get on and build the bloody things.

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Descendants

Written by andrew773 on 2025-02-04 at 14:41

@smilingdemon @tante this is the wild part. We literally had electrified transportation in the past with interurbans and street cars.

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Written by Alastair Temple on 2025-02-04 at 14:52

@andrew773 @tante exactly, but no its not sexy enough for politicians, so instead we will spend millions on sensors and computation to drive a bus, but still need a person to sit in the bus at all times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAVForth, maybe this should just have been a normal bus and all that extra cost could have paid the drivers properly eh?) or to build a private single lane car tunnel on the premise of non-existent self driving vehicles (Vagas Loop) which do nothing to meet any actual needs.

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Written by sandorspruit on 2025-02-04 at 19:23

@smilingdemon @andrew773 @tante "We do not need driverless cars, we need carless drivers" - dixit A Dutch professor in mobility

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