You've been accosted by them yourself, those electric vehicles that ferry folks around the airports. The honk that grows louder from behind as you lug your baggage through the terminal means only one thing: Clear the way or risk certain flattening. Pedestrians don't have much of a chance any more. Even in New York City, where walkers outnumber vehicles many times over, it's a regular event for auto traffic to blow through red lights or try to push through a crowd as the great mass of foot traffic begins constricting the street from both sides. More sense prevails in the controlled environment of a U.S. Postal Service processing facility in Fort Myers, Fla. There, at least, pedestrians are granted their rightful way. The heavily automated facility is a test case for the post office's experiment in integrated mail processing.
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