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To: geode00 who wrote (171137)	9/22/2005 3:39:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, I've seen LA quite a few times, and driven around it. People obviously want to live there because there are lots of other places to live. It obviously is rational, given the alternatives. If gasoline prices stay high, people will have to move closer to work, sell the SUV, buy a bicycle, a Segway, a motorbike, take a bus, or train, heck, they could even test their legs and balance in walking mode. No worries! The traffic jams can be fixed easily. Give control of vehicles to photonic/electronic/computer powered systems. With microsecond reaction times, vehicles could travel 10 cm apart at 150kph. GPS and gpsOne, and other position location systems can deliver a vehicle to where the driver wants to go, leaving the driver to park the car or take over on minor roads. Roads could handle much more traffic. Traffic lights could be pulled down as the vehicles would avoid collisions themselves. No more stop signs. Road capacity would be huge. Average speeds would be very fast. I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. LA's greatest problem is that it will cease to exist when a tsunami comes in from the Pacific from a Tunguska-style bolide splash. They really should get rid of the diesel emission pollution too. Mqurice