Comment by Anechoic
9 years ago
> He may well be out of touch, but at least Musk's suggesting a real solution to current transit problems, even if it's impractical.
He's proposing the transportation equivalent of a personal computer with perfect security, completely crash free, 1000x faster than current PCs that cost lesss tha. We have today. It's not impractical, it's laughable.
> On the other hand, whenever I read stuff by politicians and engineers with real knowledge and influence in this field, I'm astonished by the total lack of vision.
If you want to see total vision, come to a Transportation Research Board annual meeting. Or an APTA annual meeting. Visions are out there. The political support is not.
Visions have to be shared with the public, make people excited about them, to get politicians to support them