Monday, October 11, 2010

Helping Google make money with its Robocar technology?

Henry Blodget asks from Business Insider.
And MG Seigler, at Green Tech, has trouble finding the money flow.
The value of the technology is that it takes an empty meridian space on our freeways and turns it into a half million dollar/(mile*year) income. More efficiency human and cargo carriers, faster speeds, fewer change overs, flexible routing. Read my blog.

My first thought for Goggle would be to push for reseller rights on the meridian space of I-15, rights for semi autonomous vehicles with traffic control. Release the standard architecture for the super highway enable vehicles, buy up more and more meridian rights as they come available, and use technology to get gains in construction costs.

The company could literally become the Ma Bell of the transportation grid. Their way of doing open source business changes the transportation model. Any vehicle vendor who follows the software prescription can run their vehicle on the traffic controlled lanes, for a price. Google should take my proposal, outlined in this blog, and create a transparent market for investment bonds backed by specific meridians, identifiable using Google street view. This market, plus the open technology approach, makes for a very compelling argument in favor of Google getting easier access to these meridians.

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