We expect the advent of autonomous vehicles to make us feel like we are living in nirvana. Ok. Maybe not nirvana, but it should lead to the elimination of car crashes. After all 94% of all car crashes are the result of driver error.
Tag Archives: roads
Not even skin deep!
Traffic in the DC area sucks. No, I am not telling you something you haven’t read in the papers. Our area is having a race to determine whose traffic is worse- and we’ve been neck and neck with the LA area. That should tell you plenty.
Cheaper than Iraq- and more important!
Infrastructure. You know- the facilities, the structures, the systems that our country (and cities and counties) need to survive. Our economy can’t function without an infrastructure- whether it’s roads, tunnels, bridges, electric grids, water systems, sewers, telecommunications- or any combination thereof.
Infrastructure problems are NOT going away
I have been complaining for a long time that our governments- federal, state, and local- are doing us, the citizens, a grand disservice. They have basically shirked one of their primary duties- to maintain and upgrade our infrastructure. To be honest, upgrading is so far from what they’ve done, I’m sure that most of us would be thrilled with their simply maintaining what we have.