1. A flashy "high-speed" transportation project with very questionable feasibility. Often touted to defeat major urban societal problems with a free market approach; usually the schemy brainchild of a billionaire larping as the next Tony Stark.
2. A
shady company's revolutionary "next step in transportation" that defeatist techbros, entrepreneurs, and/or verified checkmark accounts swear by, praising that it will inevitably "
fix traffic". Often used to kill "
woke" infrastructure projects (and pedestrians) that have objectively better transport costs per passenger ratios.
3. The mobility technology thought of as yet another grift that tries to reinvent the wheel with a
dumb new technological gimmick, all while ignoring regulations
like designing the one emergency stop button on a touchscreen (This will not work when demonstrated at an expo
test site).
4. A gimmicky, expensive, and
useless mode of transport that appears around your neighborhood and within a year is quietly dismantled due to impending lawsuits and bankruptcy. It's
like the status quo remained but with less infrastructure money this year; usually followed up with the
local council approving more Techbro Transit since the HOAs are scared of buses and trains.
Poorly animated 3D "Techbro Transit" product video:
SHAFT will position itself in all major cities within 5 years and spread its stream of autonomous high-mobility vehicles on specialized paths that use AI to avoid traffic, soon aiming to build their own ducts
underground.
TheEloniteEntrepenuer420: Masterful gambit sir, the future is now thanks to
CEO Bambo Thrust. The Cyclists have fallen, billions must try.
Alice: Please, stop trying to reinvent the bus.
