On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Almost everything you list are things that would make life better.
Less
government intrusion.
Who said that government would NOT run these automated transport
systems? I merely asked the question of who would. I did not suggest
that government would not. I do not think that we currently know who
would run it.
Fewer accidents, pain, and death. No more getting
ripped off by insurance companies. Less need for police to waste
time on
minor stuff. The ability to live life drunk all the time. Etc. This
would
lower costs all over and make for a much more efficient ecomomy.
All of those remain to be seen. We could see more accidents.
Insurance companies will find one way or another to rip off. Police
can always find ways to expend money and energy on minor stuff if they
want to. Living drunk all the time would lower costs and make for
more efficiency??
It would also favor adoption to electric cars because it could better
manage their characteristics. When an auto-auto's battery needed
charging
it would simply be routed to a charger. If you had to make a trip that
was longer than the battery life, another auto-auto would pick you
up and
relay you to your destination. So less global warming too.
Maybe. Something will have to generate all the energy to perform
all these functions. Perhaps the 45 new nuke plants that McCain
proposes.
I like this idea more and more.
There are some things to like about it, but surely our entire
ground based transport system cannot possibly revert to such a
scenario. I see it as being quite limited relative to all the
roadways in our land.
Steve
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