You could take a train to the shop, though. If the infrastructure is built right.
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Only if you live in a city
My parents, who live in a town, can just walk to buy their groceries instead.
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Instant Teleportation when?
If we ever figure out teleportation, it will be expensive. Of course, there's a free tier where you get teleported into a void where you will have to watch ads for 20 minutes before you get sent to your destination. Complete with regular reminders that you can simply upgrade your plan to get out of teleportation purgatory immediately.
walking is an option
You likely wouldn't actually want that, as the way it works on star trek at least is to effectively kill you (by recording all your molecules etc then ripping you apart), move your molecules to the new place and then reassemble you.
There's no real way to do 'instant' teleportation like you suggest either as it most likely breaks the laws of physics, things have to move to get places, best you could probably do is very fast teleportation.
You teleport the groceries, not the person to the store. That would be silly
At that point though, I feel like food etc could have just been grown or made locally. I hope that capitalism and thus the need for stores doesn't exist if such advanced technology does. Heck, it might even lead to replicators if matter is already being played around with
I'd settle for speed of light tbh
Yeah, though this is difficult for anything with a significant mount of mass beyond that of a photon. The closest scientists and engineers etc have currently got to anything close to the possibility of going very very very fast is the Alcubierre drive. However, that's still very speculative and probably nowhere close to being built.
The most impressive tech ioo that they can come up with for space travel and exists at the moment is Ion thrusters.
Yeah so I guess I'd always imagined that the closest you can really get given the laws of physics to instant travel would be disintegration+information transfer+matter synthesis. But matter synthesis is probably ruled out by the amount of energy required to do anything, and the complexity of correct assembly. Still, fun to think about.
When the train tracks are south of the major highway, and the grocery store is north of the major highway, that doesn't seem very safe in my area. What do?
That's just idiotic traffic design. I would tell you a solution but I don't have one. You either make something happen politically or move. Shitty infrastructure is the worst.
Also, moving is kinda out of the question in this area, the manufacturing facilities near my area are among the top 10 major industrial facilities in the USA. People working there for decades ain't about to quit and move just because of some piss poor traffic design, they're making that good $$$
Maybe the minicipality should invest some of that good $$$ into some good infrastructure.
Though idk afaik different areas in the US are varying levels of incompetent when it comes to that.
They are investing that money, into the casinos like 20 miles west of here, where conveniently the casinos are south of the tracks. They don't give a damn about the everyday local citizens, it's all about the tourists.
Sucks man
well everything do have a price. And if the extra $ is worth it, you probably can afford having your groceries delivered too (you time would be more valuable than the price of delivery service)
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Many options, in no particular order of feasibility:
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Dedicated bus lane across the highway, plus half hourly or better regular bus service.
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A separated bicycle lane in that area to safely get you between the two.
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A light rail line (preferably in a dedicated lane) or subway crossing highway.
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Get a grocer opened closer to you.
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Move north of the highway or somewhere else entirely.
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Build a rail spur going north over the highway and add a train service.