Posted on 03/13/2016 7:25:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
DENVER -- Denver is one of seven finalists for the country’s first ever “Smart City” and a $50 million prize.
The “Smart City” challenge will choose one city to define what it means to be a “Smart City” and become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies – self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors – into their transportation network.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Denver along with Austin, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco as the finalists.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has pledged up to $40 million and Vulcan Inc., added $10 million to the pot for the winning city.
“We want to win this, make no mistake about it,” Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said. “This is a big deal. I don’t want to understate that.”
Denver’s population is growing rapidly and so is the traffic.
“The whole world is moving to Denver right now,” CDOT’s Executive Director Shailen Bhatt said. “We have a transportation system that was designed in the ‘50s, built in the ‘60s, for a population of the 1980s in Colorado.”
Technology has advanced since then, so the idea is to use it to improve our mobility.
“Instead of having to widen a highway or roadways we can use the system and technology to move traffic more efficiently,” Bhatt said.
It may sound crazy – but the idea of self-driving cars, and an entire signal system connected by a database – is not far off.
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I smell UN Agenda 21.
Controlling peoples movement has been a dream of leftists for a long time. Leftistism translation “smart” = “stupid slave”.
Pot is legal there.
Then it's all starting to make sense.
Speaking of “smart”, we got a smart meter at my house a couple of years ago. Turns out, they are defective and around 60,000 or more of them have been installed. They either don’t have enough memory, or it gets corrupted after a while. They have to send someone out to your house to unplug the meter so it will reboot and clear the memory. What a cluster-flook.
Never thought I’d see the words Denver and smart in the same sentence.
Yep, this isn’t about being smart, but setting up the infrastructure so the federal government can spy on everybody.
Wow…cities that do this are stupid, not “smart.” When the grid goes, the city stops, and the grid will definitely go at some point from a natural disaster, enemy attack, or hackers who will hold the city for ransom. I wouldn’t live in such a city.
Smartest thing about Denver is leaving it. Especially Aurora.
I smell UN Agenda 21.
Definitely.
It’s all incrementally done. Some tiny steps, some big steps. This is a fairly big step.
Panopticon coming atcha. Cue the Central Scrutinizer.
Sorry that was me.....
And I keep hearing reports about how much many parts of Colorado has gone to pot from people I know who've visited there the last few years. They say that the cities aren't as clean and that there are many young people littering the streets smoking pot who don't seem to have jobs.
Place seemed untouched by it.
Must admit, was a little nervous thinking it may have changed.
Vail seemed untouched as well.
Most likely since skiing is an activity that is generally reserved for the somewhat affluent which probably keeps out and walls off the undesirables....the marijuana smokers would probably rather spend their money on their habit instead of renting skis and lifts...
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