Brits will be reverting back to the horse soon

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Mythos
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08 Sep 2018, 10:13 pm

Bike?

Also, I've been wondering about smaller, more agile vehicles like cars but more slim. I've had an idea in my head for some time now; we have roads and motorways for cars, we have tracks for trains, we have cycle tracks for bikes, paths for pedestrians, I wonder if we'll one day invent a new vehicle that requires its own medium to run along? I may have to make a thread on that.



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08 Sep 2018, 10:44 pm

Traveling to london, liverpool, yorkshire, or anywhere else by horse might be too difficult considering how cities in the UK given their history were built upon themselves rather than gradually, so it's like jenga in a way. You don't want to risk having everything fall apart because you decided to remove automobiles for instance, so you would have to carefully remove segment by segment if you do.

Take for example imports and exports via carrier or planes or whatever there else might be, or just making your usual stop at the grocery store via horse. With today's technology, how would horses be capable of moving much heavier objects, especially since given the chance, its legs might break and you'll have to put them down? With cars and other similar vehicles, of course it'll be difficult and annoying, but you'll realize how expensive it would be if all transportation would be run by horses. Plus, supply and demand might not be able to keep up if horses kept dying on the job every now and then and even then, the horses wouldn't be able to keep up either because they'd have to breed like rabbits, especially considering how birthing foals takes 2-3 months more than birthing babies.



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08 Sep 2018, 10:49 pm

Mythos wrote:
Bike? Also, I've been wondering about smaller, more agile vehicles like cars but more slim. I've had an idea in my head for some time now; we have roads and motorways for cars, we have tracks for trains, we have cycle tracks for bikes, paths for pedestrians, I wonder if we'll one day invent a new vehicle that requires its own medium to run along? I may have to make a thread on that.


recumbent hybrid electric tricycles, with full suspension to handle the inevitable [on America's poorly maintained roads] frost heaves and potholes, ruts/bumps. with canopy.