State of California is broke

[TigerVols]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

 

[HanSenSE]

Madera ... gateway to Fresno! Bakersfield ... it's not the end of the earth, but you can see it from there!

Now, if this projec (like I've posted before, think Springfield Monorail) ever gets off the ground, you would think you'd want it where it gets some use. But the game plan appears to be big-footing through farmland, then taking on the big cities.

And IIRC, isn't time of the essence to get federal funds, which is why this was hustled through the legislature in the first place?

 

[MileHigh]

San Bernardino will become the third California city in a month to seek bankruptcy.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/07/san-bernardino-is-third-california-city-seek-bankruptcy-in-a-month.html

Can someone explain how a city with a hair more than 200,000 people can rack up a $46 million budget deficit?

Have you ever been to San Berdoo? It likely was fine when the steel mill was running in Fontana (?) and the military base was open, but it was pretty much a hellhole when I lived there in 2005-06. Lot of public assistance.

TONS of public assistance. But Kaiser Steel, yes in Fontana, has been gone for 30 years. Norton closed 18 years ago. To say the city hasn't adapted is pretty much an understatement. It's been a disaster there for many, many years.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

How does a driverless car eliminate gridlock? It's not cutting down on the number of cars on the road.

 

[TigerVols]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

How does a driverless car eliminate gridlock? It's not cutting down on the number of cars on the road.

Are you really this clueless?

 

[old_tony]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

I imagine driverless cars will create a huge boom for the no-fault insurance industry.

 

[Stitch]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

I imagine driverless cars will create a huge boom for the no-fault insurance industry.

I'd rather trust a computer than at last half of the drivers on the road.

 

[old_tony]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

I imagine driverless cars will create a huge boom for the no-fault insurance industry.

I'd rather trust a computer than at last half of the drivers on the road.

Can a computer get distracted when the passenger uses it to text?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

How does a driverless car eliminate gridlock? It's not cutting down on the number of cars on the road.

Are you really this clueless?

How the fork does a driverless car reduce the number of cars on the forking road?

 

[Stitch]

I'd rather the state give $5 billion to Google (in exchange for an ownership share) to continue to develop the driverless car technology.

That technology WILL happen within the next 10-20 years, rendering the bullet train obsolete.

How does a driverless car eliminate gridlock? It's not cutting down on the number of cars on the road.

Are you really this clueless?

How the fork does a driverless car reduce the number of cars on the forking road?

It doesn't reduce the number of cars. The number of cars on the road is not the sole cause of traffic problems. If traffic can be moved efficiently due to autonomous vehicles, you can fit more cars on the road.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Which makes more room for more cars thus not reducing the number of cars on the road.

Driverless cars don't change driving habits.

 

[TigerVols]

AQB, think of it as a train on a track...currently, we have individual boxcars driving themselves willy-nilly. With coming technology, the box cars will be virtually connected and will travel at high speeds in unison to the destinations, as if towed by a train engine.