Re: [t-i] Digest for transport-innovators@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

[Dave Brough]

You how 'they' were saying that by 2030, nearly no one would own a personal car?

After this, I don't think so.

Dave Brough

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Caronavirus 'good' for PRT or dual-mode?

Dave Brough <daveb...@gmail.com>: Mar 15 01:39PM -0700 It's hard to find a silver lining, but with transit now being shunned <https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939gx5/coronavirus-public-transit-ridership-numbers-plummet-funding>, perhaps authorities will be more willing to look at options that move just individuals or small groups?   Dave Brough

Jerry Roane <jerry...@gmail.com>: Mar 15 04:06PM -0500 Dave Brough   Thanks for posting this important point. Public health has always been a problem for the aircraft industry. Confined spaces with limited fresh air and no attempt at cleaning the air provided to air passengers, has always associated flying with having a cold or worse after each flight. Now that this new unknown virus has created a world pandemic, it is more clear how big box transit has to deal with tiny virus biological things. It is bad enough that diesel fumes are associated with big box transit but now pathogens are of dire importance. This virus is not going away anytime soon. It is still spreading exponentially all over the Earth and just because one nation is wealthy enough to bring it down to a few edge cases the rest of the world will not be able to control it. There are 7.76 billion people on the planet and this virus could potentially take it down to 7.67 billion before everyone on the planet has formed an immunity without a vaccine to break problem. Of course this is age specific so us older folks will disproportionately die first.   My son and immediate family are pretty sure they had it and they are getting over the symptoms. He is in Silicon Valley where travel around the world and to China is more common. At the time he was sick there were not enough test kits to use on every suspected case.   The stats I found for disease on big box (commercial airplanes) is for each person with a cold, flue or TB another comes off the plane with that disease. These are from the 11 people seated nearest the sick person. So the cure for big box transit is to break the boxes up into sub boxes and treat the air as if it was a hospital room in a chemical warfare situation. The air can be cleaned of these virus objects but it is not the silly paper face mask and windex that will destroy the virus it is a chemical mist of oxidizer to attack the virus and kill it chemically. Mechanically filtering will not capture the diameter of these tiny things. UV will do some good but big box transit has never even addressed the fecal matter in the upholstery much less destroying an airborne virus.   Your article also mentions that big box loses money already so this pandemic just slightly raises the tax money lost.   The cure is to keep your air and your upholstery only your germs and viruses. That means your wrapper or pod needs to be yours and not shared. The power unit battery mule can be shared since it does not touch the inside of the cabin in any way. The vaccine seems to be about 1.5 years out thus far. We just don't know. What we do know is people really like to buy toilet paper in a pandemic.   Jerry Roane   <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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