Mechīut tragically, largely due to the lack of the six trillion pounds that would be needed to develop the mechs and handle the inevitable lawsuits, the above vision will likely remain fantasy. Hey presto! The ideal solution to traffic congestion. It would encourage traffic to keep off the streets lest they be crushed by a giant stomping robot secondly, it would serve as a reward to the mech-owners for putting up with public transport and finally, one condition of mech ownership would be that any mech driver who saw an ambulance with sirens blaring, on its way to hospital or an accident, would be obliged to pick the occupants of the vehicle up and speed them to their destination. The benefits of this would be three fold. How so? Well, imagine the following scenario: the names of all public transports users are put into a draw for the grand price of a specially developed, sixty ton, giant mech, complete with jumpjets and nuclear reactor. We need a way to force car users off the road and onto buses and trams, and I believe I know how to do this: giant robots. We live in a culture today that has become increasingly auto-centric (in the western world, at least) - while a token amount of money is invested in public transport, few cities appear to have made any real headway in stemming the traffic problems that arise from our reliance on automotive transport.
