Smart Cars,Smart Roads : Not High Speed Waste

Dear Senator Martin,

You may have noticed there's not much enthusiasm for High Speed Rail. What there is, reminds me of the Monorail Frenzy Song on the Simpsons.

I know you are passionate in your opposition to High Speed Rail, per your piece on FaceBook (we're friends). I am in complete agreement. The future of transportation should be "evolutionary" and reflect how we live, rather than inserting inappropriate and terribly technology. Government has role in the development of infrastructure, this is the historical precedence from the Appian Way to the Kings Highway. HS Rail will actually be a duplication and competitor to airplanes and development and production will be foreign.

My background in summary, I am a retired Army Officer, I've worked in technological futures concepts at Fort Lee from 1996 to 2001. Successful development and insertion of technologies is dependent on business models, which is "how do we live". You spotted in this, in asking happens to high speed rail travelers at the terminus? Taxis, buses, rental cars aren't practical and are not financially prudent for day trips. The real answer is Smart Cars & Smart Road. Their development is organic and the benefit of this private public partnership will create a bonanza and challenge every American. I am not looking for job, I teach JROTC and I'm fine.
I just don't want to see a financial sink hole.

Let's get this funded. Technology has to be appropriate for the society it enters.

Excellent link.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/2862586.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123447510631779255.html

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Smart_Road.html

http://www.vtti.vt.edu/virginiasmartroad.html

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700009394/Smart-roads-Driving-technology-accelerates.html

http://green.autoblog.com/tag/smart+roads/