http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...ph/story?id=30471250
Why are other nations so far ahead of us in transportation? We are third world transporters (h***, we have to license other counties technologies and plead to have them build it here just to create blue collar jobs for a few years.) And we are wowed when AmWreck stays on the NEC rails at 100+MPH.
When we want to try new transportation technologies, the nay-Sayers, NIBYs, greenies, and environmentalist wonks crawl out of the woodwork. Imagine building the 1864 transcontinental RR today (would be multimillioned dollar studied and legislated to death without a spike ever driven against a rail.)
Biggest reason in my mind, dumb*** weenie politician corporate lapdogs. Imagine JFK trying to get this 375MPH technology done today in US (the moon landings for you youngsters born after the 60s), he would be laughed out of the House and Senate as wrong headed, and maybe impeached for insanity.
Jaded much, you betcha. Climbing off my soapbox.
