r/BeAmazed 16d ago

History This is Wild..!!

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u/ForsakenAd2845 16d ago edited 16d ago

That is assuming 150m per year remains constant. It would significantly increase over years. Unless we get flying cars or some other fancy transportation tech in next 25 years.

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u/DeflatedDirigible 16d ago

The Jetsons takes place in 2062. George Jetson was born in 2022. Flying cars are coming soon!

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u/chalkles0329 16d ago

That's what we thought about hoverboards after Back to the Future, and they still haven't gotten off the ground...

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u/fillmebarry 16d ago

Those jetski attachments look cool though, let's be honest. We've also gotten ironman-esque jetpack systems and green goblin-esque drone boards.

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u/TranslateErr0r 16d ago

Put me on a skateboard and it will fly through the air in no time. For a short time. So you just need a lot of clones of me I guess.

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 16d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/Iwillnotbeokay 16d ago

This is the kind of optimism I like! Flying cars would be so rad.

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u/illocor_B 16d ago

They’ll never happen. Not with the public walking underneath anywhere that traffic goes to, such as schools, retail, churches and everything else. The possibility of crashes/failures happening and now you have vehicles plummeting to the earth will cause no flying cars. Nobody would insure anything.

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 16d ago

They’ll never happen. Not with the public walking adjacent to anywhere that traffic goes to, such as sidewalks in front of schools, sidewalks in front of retail, sidewalks in front of churches and everything else. The possibility of crashes/failures happening and now you have vehicles crashing into sidewalks will cause no cars. Nobody would insure anything.

~somebody a long time ago

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I see what you're saying, but I don't think that's what'll stop them ... sorry about the snark, but I felt the parallel needed to be drawn somehow and this way amused me

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u/Fine_Cap402 16d ago

People can barely operate transportation devices in two dimensions and you want to add a third?

Good luck with that.

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u/Teauxny 16d ago

In other words more income inequality where the rich Sky People can raise the levels of their expansive apartment buildings so they don't have to hear the poors rioting below.

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u/thatstwatshesays 16d ago

If cars could morph into a freaking briefcase upon arrival at the destination, the world would be a better place. Think, all those stupid parking lot fights just…..poof….. gone.

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u/PasswordResetButton 16d ago

And it can't decrease! There's a rider in the contract if the city closes street parking for reasons that the city itself has to pay for the time that the closure occured.

It's fucking absurd and honestly, any politician worth his salt would just rip it the fuck up and say "Fuck you. You made this deal with a corrupt asshole."

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u/GodIsInTheBathtub 16d ago

The city can't just go around and rip up any contract it doesn't like. Or that now has unfavorable terms. I'm not saying this isn't due to corruption, but that needs to be proven. Because where is the line, who decides what's "obviously" due to corruption, and not just someone being stupid, short-sighted or favoring a quick win now over someone else's problem tomorrow?

Would you enter into a contract with the city (in good faith) if you knew that if that contract becomes unpopular, or is seen as unfavorable, the city might just rip it up? How much profit is too much profit?

Prove that the contract is unlawful, then rip it up.

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u/PasswordResetButton 15d ago

Oh I know it would be hard. It's an absurd contract and I'm sure there're outs.

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u/LuckyOneAway 16d ago

Inflation also exists. 1.1B in 2008 money is very different from 11B in 2083 money.

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u/TheKarenator 16d ago

I would bet the fees go up at a faster rate than inflation.

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u/BolOfSpaghettios 16d ago

The company that's maintaining these has steadily been increasing prices. I think it was done through Goldman Sachs.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63329951-paved-paradise

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u/zDraxi 16d ago

Correct.

(and growing)

That's important.

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u/picturepath 16d ago

Or enforcement stops.

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u/Mace_Thunderspear 16d ago

Im curious. If the meters were destroyed, who's required to maintain/replace them? Is the city on the hook for their maintenance costs?

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u/Pr_fSm__th 16d ago

Time for this universes Briefs family to emerge and invent capsule technology.

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u/luettmatten 16d ago

Bicycles?!

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u/BluetheNerd 16d ago

Flying cars still have to park somewhere though

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u/Jamcram 16d ago

How about, and im just spitballing here,, a massive expansion in taxis after 2008 following gig apps like uber, and immediately followed up again with self driving taxis that don't need to ever park?

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u/deeziegator 16d ago

Or fancy tech like “bicycles”

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u/ForsakenAd2845 15d ago

Try biking in Chicago next time you go there and let me know how it works out for you.