Google-mpg?

I have just exited the bathroom where I discovered in the lower stratum of basket reading material an issue of AARP magazine. I read an article bolstering an idea for driverless transportation, albeit fostered by Google.  A good read in that venue.

Considering the overall transportation needs of the developing world, as well as the current condition of our existing “clogged” urban transit web, I find this ‘new’ idea to be only one more ripple in the pre-tsunami of real transportation problem solving, which is not Google's lesser-than-driver car.  This is just one more surface based transportation scheme in the volley of lawn-dart attempts at proving something of the nature of 'the earth is flat.' The article was questionable in its purported application at the outset for reasons too numerous to list. Thus, I searched as I read, for the structure of Googles concept - just how Google is turning the dials to even tally a simple project scope.  When I read about Google's use of a browser to find anything online and in direct comparison to this seemingly backwards concept, I almost quit reading.

I understand that reporters don’t often get the story straight or that the real recipe may not want to be revealed, but please, let’s get this right. Eventually the cookie has to be served. On that note, why isn’t google in the kitchen making cookies, with so much access to information/expertise on everything? The statistical variant is so overwhelmingly against a successful ground-based beanie-copter motion-thinking   s  l  o  w   transportation scheme it beckons one to ask the question….. is this just a google write-off or is this a google pry to frustrate architects enough that we will step up and solve the problem ourselves? 

My gut thinks the latter.

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Kenneth E. Martin, AIA
Principal Proprietor
KeMA
Thornton CO
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