Smart Roads, Smart Cars and Saving Lives on our Highways
In the future, the very near future the roads we drive on will communicate with our cars. And our cars will communicate with all the other cars on the road too. Everything in our cars will communicate together in a net-centric way. These systems will make our highways safe and prevent tragic traffic accidents, which kill nearly 42,000 every year.
Of course there are always critics to such forward advances in technology and recently on an online Think Tank Forum one such critic blasted a new technology innovative concept for our modern automobiles to save lives. This critic blasted the new concept, which would be used on bridges to alert in the case of black ice and he stated:
“Well, there you go again. Always spending the taxpayer s money on your dream and a prayer of such techno gadgets? Why should we outfit all the bridges in the country with these new fangled techno toys? Why should we give all the highway patrol new devices to correspond with these bridges in their cars? Remember the FBI gave laptops to their workforce and they lost 1500 with important data on them I am sure? We cannot trust our taxpayer s dollars to your hair-brained ideas.”
“I will take my safety into my own hands and pay attention when I drive others should too. Every time we make improvements to the roadway they put up barriers and crap and it slows down my commute. If someone takes a corner too fast and crashes, good, they are no longer on the road, and this reduces idiots who cannot drive as well as Darwin Award winners. Less dumb people means better safety too. Fewer cars on the road, less dumb people, safer driving and more responsible humans.”
It seems no matter what new innovation someone comes up with there will be critics at every turn attacking the idea. We must make our roads safer and we should use technology to do it. We should make our cars safer and we must use our best technologies in that endeavor as well. We are losing some 42,000 people per year in automobiles and that is a shame indeed. Consider this in 2006.
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