Building canals in the 1830s, which rapidly was obsolesced by the railroads. So I would be skeptical of our ability to create a centrally integrated intelligent transportation system in the near future, but I would be intrigued with our potential to use core structures like GPS to create decentralized, market-oriented breakthroughs that would become either rentable or purchasable within a very short time. I think it would be more likely to evolve very, very rapidly through that kind of free-standing decentralized model than we are from a centrally governed planned effort to brute force the current technology. My guess and my hunch is that it's at least two generations too early. My hunch is that there's a pretty high chance that its sensor system and its database system will turn out to be far too centralized and far too controlling for where we're going.
Space is cheaper than land.
The power struggle is over who's in charge, and I'm very leery anytime public bureaucrats explain why they should allocate the money to buy what they think is the state of the art, because as a general rule you can already find crazed experts who know the next-generation's breakthroughs before they start laying the concrete for the current generation. That's also, by the way, why I like decentralized marketplaces, because you can obsolesce things and just let them go bankrupt. Highly centralized control system of MasterCard. I have a machine on this bridge, and so you have your car that permanently has this decal and you can go through any of these data systems in this country. That makes sense to me, because it's simply a modest extension of existing scanning technology and existing credit card technology.