- Self driving cars are created. Any day now!
- Car-to-car communications are developed so that cars can negotiate manoeuvres on the road
- Someone (let's face it: GM) adds a transaction system so that you can pay someone to get out of your lane if you're in a hurry
- Navigation systems are used to implement a stock market trading convenience and speed in real time on the road
- People realize that if you cause traffic you can be paid to get out of the way
- Grifters form into roving packs that intentionally slow down traffic to extract tolls from cars
- As a result, commuters group cars together and pool funds to purchase passage through swarms of grifters at a lower overall cost
- Major corridors consisting of large packs moving together become the only viable way to navigate even moderately sized roads and all highways.
- Size competition between grifter packs and commuter packs, commuters start scheduling coordinated travel between population centers so that a large enough pack can be formed to outcompete grifters
- oops that's a train
Hmm so what you are saying is that trains are the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the ultimate form of transportation? Because if you are, I already knew that