Road Trains

It's been an absurdly busy week or so, however I stumbled across this gem of an article and wanted to share. Years ago I saw a Discovery channel program about proposed highway trains in San Francisco. However, back then they were mechanical - cars could join a center lane (conveyor belt thingy) and travel at a high rate of speed from one destination to another, eliminating the need for steering, braking, or anything really. The big knock on them was that they required major infrastructure changes - and as we've seen over and over again with the electric car industry, changing this nation's transportation infrastructure is almost blasphemous.

However, now that more and more cars on the road are essentially computers, utilizing technology like Wi-Fi to have them communicate with one another is a distinct possibility. Check out this interesting article and read all about Road Trains - they're feasible and could change transportation for the better immediately.

Cool stuff.