This is actually a great idea. It is the “light rail” system that would work with our suburban culture. We could drive lighter cars with smaller engines because the need (and ability) to “compete” on the roads would end. You don’t need 300 hp in your sedan because the car is going to accellerate at the same rate as everyone else and deliver you to your destination at a fixed speed.
But, how do we implement? We would need to scrap all the nation’s cars and trucks at once and then introduce the new technology at once. That’s quite a challenge. I do not want to be in my driverless 100 hp car when some guy in a 350 hp Nissan Titan is swerving in and out of the automated traffic flow.
Our nation is just too big with too many cars and too many people with big egos to ever hope that a system like this would work unless we build another highway and street system to accomodate them. Of course, if full Obamunism takes hold, it will be possible to implement anything the government wants—but I doubt they’ll want us driving around in anythng after that.
“This is actually a great idea.”
Thanks. You are the only Freeper here who sees how Driverless cars is American ingenuity at its best.
Please go back and help me refute the naysayers on this threat.
Robotic cars is a great alternative to idiotic “high speed” trains that the liberals push.
Here we preserve our individual cars and control where and where we go. Privacy could be fostered by filters that keep centralized authorities from controlling too much information.