The Future of Transportation
Contributed by R. Benjamin Blair
This video by Discovery Tech has reignited my passion for the future and started my brain humming away with both potential applications, and the effects on social engineering. This little piece of technology is simply the tip of the complete iceberg. Over the last 15 years we have seen an extremely steep curve in the amount of people that use personal cellphone devices, this combined with the technology of these devices allowing us to have access to GPS and Google's very extensive mapping and logistics technology has opened up a real time mapping system of sorts.
Once we have fully integrated networks that link our phones, vehicles, roads, and traffic codes autonomous vehicles are right around the corner. Suddenly we are safer, smarter, and we have copious amounts of excessive time previously dedicated to navigating roads, traffic, and avoiding collisions. This will save close to 42,000 lives per year in America alone. The Singularity is coming, lets take control of our future and embrace change!