> > I'd be interested to see your proposal to handle say the state of
> wyoming.
>
> Perhaps both inhabitants could share a car?  :-)



Well that's pretty much the problem.

Take me..
I'm in Muncie Indiana. "America's Hometown"

Our bus system shuts down at 9 PM, so workers in retail can't use it to go
home. They close at 9, and would have to do some amount of closing work, so
they'd miss the last busses.
Walmart runs 24/7 as does meijer's, both significant employers.
The bus system also shuts down on sunday, apparently jesus wants us to walk
to church.
(We also can't buy alcohol on sundays, I guess being drunk on satuday, if
you're a jew, is ok though.)


The bus system is highly acclaimed, but runs infrequently, and everything
comes to a hub, which is very inefficient unless what you want to do is
downtown.
All the usual problems of how to deal with any amount of cargo. We do have
bicycle racks and kneeling buses, and wheelchair lifts.
We have ramped curbs at most intersections.
We also plant telephone poles right in the middle of the sidewalk, leaving
about 1.5' on either side, with a building wall on the inside of the
sidewalk.

Transport to other small towns would have to be done by hitching a ride.
Transport to Anderson, same.
Indianapolis (40 miles)  same.

For those folks who live a bit outside of town, Tough luck.  No mass
transport at all, other than school buses.

Could this change?  Yes, it could, somewhat.
What do folks out of town do in winter, when the roads blow over with snow
faster than they can possibly be plowed?
"Smart" cars will  end up as traffic cones, and I'd really like to see one
after a year on our roads.

You  know why GM dosen't test tanks here?  They can't take it!.
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