- #1
- 11,919
- 53
I've just scurried back to my hotel room until it's time to head off for my conference...I am not enough of a morning person to deal with the crackpot wandering around the hotel lobby interrupting people trying to eat breakfast. He's going to cut healthcare costs by 50% by eliminating the automobile and replacing it with his transportation system...which sounds a whole lot like a monorail. A little more probing, and he dropped out of engineering school because he already knew how to draw blueprints...his high school had a full machine shop and carpenter shop and auto shop, so they already learned to read blueprints Instead, he majored in philosophy. By the way, this guy is no spring chicken. I decided I'll leave it for someone else to tell him the technology he describes has existed for probably 20 years already, isn't going to replace the automobile, and the problem with using it in cities isn't because of the lack of technology, but because of the problems with building it in an existing city without shoving people out of homes, devaluing the property around it, and all of the other political issues involved in building such extensive infrastructure in a mature city. Oh well, just venting. And sharing that they aren't just characters on the internet...these are real people who really believe this stuff!
[/rant]
