The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Rob S. who wrote (31988)	11/10/2009 1:15:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 46821

That's a nice idea [ride sharing] but it's perpetuating the old ways of doing things. The problem is not the size of roads it's the intelligence [lack of it] of the drivers who apparently have trouble talking on a mobile phone and driving while ogling girls walking down the street. There is also a taxation problem. Not to mention a pricing problem. And a vehicle design problem. Those things combined have led to the vast waste in traffic. Throw in stupid traffic engineering and life in traffic is bleak unless the driver is paid by government departments to sit around in comfy cars listening to the radio. Here are the answers. Put navigation systems in vehicles. GPS, transponders, proximity detectors, gpsOne, etc so the position, speed and direction of a vehicle and its intended trajectory over its journey are known. Introduce congestion charging for roads. Remove all the traffic lights. Automate vehicle operations - meaning untouched by human hands. Make taxis tax-free. Monitor the position of the vehicle and give it a quote for the intended journey before the journey starts. If the passenger doesn't think the price is cheap enough, they can make other arrangements such as traveling in another mode or deferring their journey. The price quoted is a function of the demand at the time for that journey, meaning if it's going to be busy, the price will be high to encourage fewer people to travel then. The passenger presses "accept". Money is debited from their prepay account and off they go. The vehicle drives itself and heads into the traffic flow, traveling on motorways at 150 kph half a metre behind the vehicle in front. On suburban streets, speeds would be lower but could still be pretty quick. Intersections wouldn't require collecting big numbers of vehicles to release in a green wave. Each vehicle would be moved according to space available. There wouldn't be a confused person blocking dozens or hundreds of other vehicles with every phase of traffic lights. If taxis were tax free, the incentive to own and operate and find parking for one's own vehicle would dramatically reduce. That would introduce great efficiency. Fares would be a function of demand - at peak times on rainy days, prices would be higher. Cyberphones would provide a communications method to get the right taxi at the right price at the right time. If Greenies are really into cutting CO2 per lifestyle, they'd jump at the idea of tax-free taxis and some cyber-engineering. Many of the necessary technologies are well into design phases and implementation in many vehicles is already commercial. Mqurice

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next