RE: Bringing Government into the Future - Transportation
To help give a bit more clarification, Seattle doesn't get snow or ice very often, and if we do, it is usually gone within 24 hours. However a few years ago Seattle had a massive ice storm and all the road reflectors
were "popped off" when the scrappers (that usually only service the mountain pass that divides WA) came over to scrape off all the ice. I do agree that it is a never ending process, however advancements in paint quality and application, have greatly reduced how often this needs to take place.
As for your last point... are you saying transportation is a dying industry?! So how does one get to their job site to do construction? Or a legal team get to the court house? or medical professionals get to hospitals and urgent cares? or the trucks that ship of all your goods? Do you know of further advancements in teleportation that I don't know about?
Thank you for the reply and allowing me to explain more. I am interested to hear what you have to say regarding the industry.
Your smattering of examples of "why we need to have transportation" are all from a very specific niche.
Let me address a much larger and far easier to stomp out area.
The suburban commuter on their daily voyage to get to a job.
Suburbs are dead.
The daily jobs are dead.
And all that roadway in between will be vacant.
Your assumption is that this large group of people, the very ones that might benefit from self driving cars, are going to exist in the near future.
My thinking is they won't.
The jobs are dead. Advances in robotics and computing are destroying all of these jobs.
The suburbs are not a sustainable development.
The suburbs are dead. Emotionally, Morally, and with the loss of jobs, physically.
The jobs that are left will done via the internet.
So, for a great part, the majority of the traffic jam causing traffic will disappear.
How will humans survive? How will they survive without a job? Well that is the shift that is happening right now. Its the whole reason that so many are talking about Universal Basic Income.