Saturday, July 21, 2012

Driverless Cars Are The Future


When Will I Get To Drive One?

I cannot wait to buy one. Finally, I can relax, while getting from A to B. This is the future of individual mobility. Valet parking attendants are passé. Automated, self-park, efficient, and compact parking garages will be everywhere. And so much more …

Infrastructure For The 21st Century And Beyond

This project would beat historical transportation projects like the Erie Canal and Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System by a wide margin. If President Obama was not wearing ideological blinders and if he was less dim witted he would be on this a long time ago.

Benefits: Much less traffic congestion, far fewer vehicular accidents and much more.

The End Of Conventional Public Transportation

Who needs all these trains, buses or very expensive high speed trains anymore? Why would government have to provide for that?

The federal, state, and local governments should pave the way for driverless cars instead of wasting tens of billions of dollars on pet projects like high speed trains or inner city light railways etc. I you want to read more about it I recommend “Paving the Way for Driverless Cars” (subscription required) by Clifford Winston published on the Opinion page of the US Edition of The Wall Street Journal on 7/18/2012.

Nevada Is Not Only For Gambling And Entertainment

Nevada is also one of the first states to pass a law concerning the operation of a driverless car in June 2011 also thanks to Google. “The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles issued the first license for a self-driven car in May 2012. The license was issued to a Toyota Prius modified with Google's experimental driver-less technology.” (According to Wikipedia).

Like the “Fight of the Century” between the first black heavy weight boxing champion Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in 1910 that took place in Reno, Nevada, because the original venue, i.e. San Francisco, CA, had to cancel this fight since the governor of California would not allow it, it is Nevada again being a trailblazer.

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