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[source](https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/city-transport-horizontal-banners_9515712.htm#fromView=search&page=1&position=47&uuid=3639eb95-f7b3-4884-983d-2a4488737513&query=transportation+animated)

Sometimes an invention seems too good until later you come to realize it was for those past moments. Every invention has its setbacks. I keep on saying it, [technology](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-technology) will always have its flaws. First, you have to understand that you are trying to satisfy [humans](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-human); here, needs are insatiable.  Have you always observed how most of the things always turns around to start almost from the beginning; you created A services as a solution because B was posing inconveniences and overtime people start missing B and see some [economic](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-economic) or natural disadvantages of A.  We go again.

That was by the way, so what prompted this writing? My last [article](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-article) was centred on how new [industries](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-industry) keep collapsing the former. So, it is [NOW](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-negotiable-order-of-withdrawal-account-now) one article leading to another. I did make mention of one of an example a [friend](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-friend) [on chain](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-on-chain) wrote about in this similar topic. His view was how the [train](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-train-railroad) and public transport industries are likely to fade out. The demand for easy, convenience and affordable means of [transportation](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-transportation) is on the increase. 

We have seen the moves for [robotaxis](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-robotaxis) something that when fully implemented will be one big rivalry to this public transport sectors. [Elon Musk](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-elon-musk) and his [Tesla](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-tesla) [company](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-company-business) are leading the charge with this and it is assumed within a decade, there should be a widespread of it. Will this new waves really take off old transport system and just make those good train station more of an architecture? It was a debate a friend argued on chain with his reasons.
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[source](https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cars-standing-city-parking-lot-cartoon-vector-illustration-high-town-buildings-landscape-with-green-bushes-colorful-automobiles-rest-station-urban-skyline-with-houses-vehicles_77944521.htm#fromView=search&page=1&position=28&uuid=b5b69a8b-e5b4-43ce-b0f0-956ff63ba9a9&query=traffic+jam+animated)
So, lets start like this, how will the [world](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-world) look like should everyone own a car? I mean active ownership; we are talking of 8 billion cars by feasible studies. Will the roads be able to contain this. How will daily [Traffic](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-traffic-2000-film) be looking like. Many of those who stay in a [city](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-city) like Lagos can attest to this. Half of your [day](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-day) can be spent in [traffic](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-traffic) jams. I dislike being held down by the traffic, I always feel suffocated already. I am just imagining how I would have been coping with hour on a long traffic jam. 

Can robotaxi invention create an overcrowded vehicular system? Cars are not portable unlike smart phones. This was his strong reasons that train stations will still remain very active. Another big point here, the [cost](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-cost) of increasing roads to fit in such overcrowded vehicles is high. Who will be doing this, [government](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-government) of course, will the be spending that much for private companies to take advantage of it. When talking of advanced cities where structures and infrastructures have already been put in place, how can road expansion be ascertained?

We are thinking of a future of flying cars no doubt, that is a thing of the future. To be more precise, we are not certain of this will manifest in the [Next](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-next-2007-film) three decades not to even talk about a massive adoption. The success of investing is about balancing many scales; can there be a future for those eyeing [opportunities](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-opportunity) in the train and [bus](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-bus-vehicle) station industry. Is it lucrative, will it remain and for how long?
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[source](https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/city-road-street-car-traffic-vector-background-skyscraper-cityscape-cartoon-panorama-with-cloud-building-silhouette-sunny-river-coastline-urban-embankment-speedway-game-wallpaper_86378651.htm#fromView=search&page=1&position=45&uuid=b5b69a8b-e5b4-43ce-b0f0-956ff63ba9a9&query=traffic+jam+animated)
Until the flaws of an overcrowded and non-portable metallic objects in the name of cars are resolved I feel there is still some breathing [space](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-space). Not large enough anyway, robotaxi will prevail in [terms](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-term-insurance) of better service [delivery](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-delivery). Transportation still remains a vital industry to humanity, we have seen the introduction of [mobile](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-mobile) phones not being able to completely phase off this industry. At some point, [love](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-love) ones have to meet, some [businesses](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-business) require transactional presence. Those that use the road most are workers; another thing to put into consideration, if [AI](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-artificial-intelligence) and humanoids take over the workforce industry, will cars even scale?

To conclude, let me add, technology has proven to be a disrupter, collapsing old industries to form new ones. This comes with [investment](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-investment) uncertainties, it can happen that some industries that will be assumed dead transform to still remain valuable. It is [ALL](https://inleo.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-all-currency) about a later discovered flaws of its successor.



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