It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.

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    Ground-rolling cars as mass transportation. The engineering superb, but the technology inherently can’t scale. The storage requirements alone push many cities past the limits financial sustainability, and the spatial requirements for operation lead to massive network congestion as a matter of course. And yet, we keep throwing good money after bad trying to make the system work.