CA - The escalating demand for modern, efficient mass transportation has outgrown the means of most big cities. A clear road to a solution has been obscure at best and while many look to the future of technology to solve this problem, a few have taken the technology of today, and implemented it now - when a solution is needed most.
Buses are a future solution rooted in the past.
They may be viewed by many commuters as an archaic form of mass transportation, but they are being seriously researched as an immediate vital component in a solution to the current commuter crisis throughout urban America. Although computerizing buses may not directly impact the mass transportation problem, it is a critical first step in a chain that may help associate the bus, in the minds of commuters, to a more modern, and efficient means of transportation. The advent, and more recently the improvement of flash memory is what has made possible this unlikely merger of buses and high technology. Previously, using computers as controllers on anything that moved or vibrated was impossible. Mechanical disk drives could not sustain the beating they would experience on a typical bus ride.