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Same streetcar journey, 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcz_tllnwM

I'm really glad someone did the 100 year anniversary version.

2105 will be all nanorobots or something.

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A perfect use for youtubedoubler! (I prefer to mute the one on the left)

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu...

Looks on the surface remarkably similar. Yeah, no horses, less pedestrians (though not by all that much), public transport seems the same, about as many people on bikes and many more cars. But the basic building blocks didn’t change by much.

Everything is much tighter regulated, though, (pretty much a necessity when enough cars are involved) and as a consequence everything looks a lot less chaotic.

I used to ride my bike to work on Market Street, and to me this video seems unusually serene. If it was filmed during rush hour, which I don't think this was, your conclusion about it being less chaotic might be different...or maybe things just seem much more intense from a bicycle perspective.

I used to drive a cab in the city a couple years ago and the bikers situation on Market street during rush hour was pretty chaotic from that perspective as well :P

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