Given current growth trends, the world's population is expected to reach 9 billion people by midcentury. That also means a quadrupling in the number of cars to 4 billion by 2050 -- and that, said Ford, is a recipe for global gridlock that he argues will become "a human rights issue, not just an inconvenience."
For Ford [...] the only answer is to create a future where pedestrians, bicycles, and cars become part of a connected network.
— CNET
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um, in u.s. first we have to have a transport grid. (not counting ny & dc, of course.)
I believe America's way out of this mess is just under our finger tips. It is Natural Gas.
We need to push Detroit...automakers even if their not in Detroit to looking to Propane Gas for vehicles. The Technology is there the distribution is not. We have an existing base of gas stations in place. So the feds require every station to provide for propane filling of cars (give them an incentive). With the pricing I think you would find before long they would be marketing only the top octane rated gas and propane gas. We would cut our emissions like mad. We could extend the time clock to more fuel efficient transportation .
This frees us of the mid east... it allows us to develop USA technology and use our natural resources. Most important it allows us to create American Jobs.
punny and sarcastic fracking jokes come to mind, but i'll resist.
we don't need better ways to fuel our cars, we need to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. at the moment, we don't have functional alternatives in the u.s., putting us behind most of the rest of the developed world.
what would be smart is to not wait for technology to fix something that nature and history have already shown workable solutions for. Encourage technical innovation, but don't assume that innovation must be be hi-tech.
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