Hyperlanes, Bullet Trains, And AI Self-Driving Cars

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

[Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/]

I feel the need, the need for Maglev speed.

The Maglev has been considered the fastest commercial High-Speed Rail (HSR) line and whisks passengers at a breathtaking 267 miles per hour from the Pudong airport to the Longyang station in Shanghai, a distance just shy of 20 miles.

Named the Maglev because it uses magnetic levitation, it has been a marvel since it first opened in 2004.

Let’s call high-speed rail lines a more flavorful name, bullet trains.

If you hold your breath, you might get a chance to someday ride a bullet train in California.

That’s actually a funny statement because anyone that lives in California knows that we’ve been pining away to have a bullet train for quite a long time. You’d need to have a large pair of lungs to hold your breath for as long as we’ve contemplated having our very own California bullet train.

In 2008, California residents voted in favor of Proposition 1A, a $9 billion bond to help kick-start a bullet train that would run from Los…