Here’s a New York Times article about electric car infrastructure for Hawaii. This shows what private enterprise can do when the challenge is moderate. I don’t think that we could rely on an entirely private solution for the entire U.S. because the capital requirements are too large to support the entire Lower 48 simultaneously. This loosely relates to my earlier posting on converting the U.S. to electric cars.
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I say forget about individually driven cars & roads as we know it. Cars can still be individually owned, as far as credit bailouts allow, but the driving needs to be centrally controlled & the roads need to be specifically designed for autonomous electric cars. Maybe they need inductive charging or 3rd rails embedded in the asphalt.
You get in your car, dial up the destination, & a central computer synchronizes your trip with all the other cars so everyone can complete their trip without stopping.
It doesn’t need to be centralized for that to work, this navigation problem has already been solved. There will need to be radar (for obstacles like people and animals) and more intelligence in the individual cars to make this workable though. I would predict that certain zones (such as dense city core areas) would be the first to move to such a system. Hopefully Better Place will get some traction (pun intended) and we will see some new concepts start taking hold.