“We need a new signal called blue phase, meaning you should follow the vehicle in front of you,” says civil engineer and traffic control researcher Ali Hajbabaie.

Yeah, a bunch of cars that all follow each other, with signals set up so they don't have to stop! Imagine if you could get on a roadway in one place and go straight through to the next pla... Wait this is a train.

Why do these carbrains keep re-inventing trains, but shittier?

I keep being reminded of David Foster Wallace's commencement speech quip about the young fish who are like "what the hell is water?"

When you hold in your heart the belief that everyone deserves a climate-controlled steel cage to move about in, you simply overlook all of the efficient, effective, climate-friendly solutions that could exist.

#fuckcars #urbanism