An article found at
arstechnica.com headlines the US Department of Transportation endorsement of self-driving
cars. The January 15,2016 story states: “At this week's
North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Transportation Secretary
Anthony Foxx announced that "in 2016, we are going to do
everything we can to promote safe, smart, and sustainable vehicles. We are
bullish on automated vehicles."
January 14, 2016 AP hosts a related story: link: US government developing policies for self-driving
cars
This post is to state that bureaucracy is a product of its academia
training. Voltaire sums it up nicely
with his quote: “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” The point here is only saying that the
product of human conditioning when conformity is the dictate, people are
deprived of ingenuity.
This blog constantly makes the point that the automobile is
NOT sustainable. Our society is called
the Car Culture. For the top
transportation official in the US Government to make such harshly untrue
statement is symptomatic as to why freeways are crowded. When all cars are electrically powered and
fully automated, is Foxx saying there will be no more crowded freeways, poor
economic condition and an improved social condition? That is the ignoramus statement he is
suggesting when he allocates $3.9billion towards the development of driverless
automobiles into a situation that has based the unsustainable land-use problem
to a further endorsement which proliferates the source of the un-sustainability.
The automobile IS the source of un-sustainability
but, sustainability is a land-use issue.
Whether an automobile is electrically powered or driverless is irrelevant
to its UN-SUSTAINABILITY.
