In October, San Jose will host an international pod car conference, a bid it won after acting Transportation Director Hans Larsen appeared as a guest speaker in Sweden as part of the international climate conference in Copenhagen last December.
One glaring error:
A pod-car system running from long-term parking and the terminals to the Caltrain station west of the airport could be built for about $200 million. In comparison, an automated people mover would require tunneling under the runways and cost around $600 million.
Wrong. The system is already built, all it needs is rules of the road for the pod cars. We can get you the rules and solutions for $50 million, send me e mail.
Source: Mercury news.
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So let us set up the trade. On one side we have $200 million of concrete guideways. On the other we have $50 million of profit, lane markings, strategic fencing, and a common autobot driver rule set. You know Silicon Valley will win this trade. They will win it around the San Jose airport, and they will win it at the Oakland Connector. Silicon beats Concrete.
We have a compilable rule set. In the case of the San Jose Airport, we can compile it into a paper based rule explanation for airport workers, and compile it into a set of testable rules for auto taxis and auto buses. We can add lane markings for pedestrians and bots to watch. Invest in a protective iron rail here and there. But what makes it work is the software link, the software route from uniformly defined rules to deployment of Navigation Logic.
In the process of deployment, the existing asphalt roads gain in efficiency by translating asynchronous traffic to synchronous. That is a gain in value, equivalent to recovering energy by conservation. Hence the San Jose Airport authorities need to consider revenue collection from that kind of road intelligence, make the cost pay for itself.
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