August 15th 2018
I haven’t invested in Tesla because of their proposed, “self driving cars,” but how do you feel about putting your life in the hands of an Ai chauffeur? And what are the implications of, “self driving vehicles?”
Furthermore, I wonder... "how will Tesla’s self driving cars operate through; rain, snow, or ice? And why not trains?" And while I understand that train tracks often corrode… typically leaving subways in a constant state of maintenance… why not center mass transit around bullet trains as opposed to self driving vehicles? What’s the difference between automated cars, vehicles that will likely end up snailing along icy roads at 10mph due to legal liability, as opposed to trains which can operate much faster and particularly in adverse weather conditions? Which is ultimately why I believe that a national train system could be much more cost effective than automated vehicles.
And this issue falls into a larger spectrum of debates that is immersed in political corruption, particularly regarding, “highway pork spending,” for the better part of the last century. (*Online traffic leads to sales and seeing how people fight over internet traffic in modern times, I can only imagine what happened in the 1950’s.) Whereby, today… and in retrospect… America’s mass transit system, perhaps more than any other issue… encapsulates micro-economies and the iron triangle politics that have been connected to Detroit automakers and Petroleum imports for the last century.
Or more simply put, I don’t want to speculate on the history of America’s financing of public transit… but… “why go away from trains in the first place?” And I wonder why that change initially occurred because Petroleum imports alone more than double the costs of a nation-wide train system, even if that train system requires routine maintenance.
So, as opposed to modernized, “automated vehicles,” why not build trains? And is funding or track maintenance really the issue?
But, again, being 32 years old and growing up in (suburban) Detroit, hearing the rumors surrounding the auto industry for decades… I can merely speculate. Regardless, I actually believe that unknown political powers are seeking to keep the masses divided on this issue by intentionally creating a flawed mass transit system and prolonging criminal behavior on America's highways in order to create a bloated legal system. Furthermore, in my opinion the real reason that we don’t have a nation-wide subway system and instead rely on automobiles today… is due to corruption and dating pools. Or rather, more specifically I believe that our state and federal governments refuse to build larger train systems because of politicized school zones and the issue of crime.
In conclusion,, I believe that our leader's recognize the need for a nation-wide subway system, yet they refuse to build one. In fact, Cincinnati has an abandoned subway system that’s been half built for the last 40 years. I also believe that many Washington bureaucrats are aware of the advantages that a nation-wide subway system presents, however, I also believe that these same leaders refuse to allow the poor (*in most states) access to public transit due to political juxtapositions! Nevertheless, this assumption is based entirely upon the excessively high costs of Petroleum imports… versus the need for subways and unfortunately, I feel like we’re going to be stuck with single serving vehicles for a long time despite common sense economics.
-William Larsen, Civilians News