[LINK] Gridlocked cities to cost more than $53 billion a year by 2031 without action: Infrastructure Australia

[Frank O'Connor]

Look, up in the sky ... Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's our PM.

Because this looks like a job for the INFRASTRUCTURE PRIME MINISTER!!!!!!

Nope ... Nope ... I think that was just a bird

Maybe IPM was just another weak aspiration rather than a promise.    :)

Just my 2 cents worth ...

> On 22 May 2015, at 1:34 pm, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:
> 
>> On 22/05/2015 9:35 AM, Paul Bolger wrote:
>> ...
>> Can't wait to see the Government's 15 year infrastructure plan.
>> ...
> The image that comes to mind is of tax "relief" to encourage buggy-whip 
> manufacturing and small businesses to pick up horse manure.
> 
> Transport is in for interesting times with electric vehicles and, as you 
> say, driver-less everything. That driver-less thing could be a worry. 
> Vehicles will no doubt communicate, both with each other and with the 
> infrastructure. The potential for surveillance and privacy invasion will 
> be substantial.
> 
> I've been wondering about Google's role in driver-less vehicles. They're 
> essentially developing an operating system. If Android is any guide, the 
> system will report back to Google. The vehicles are equipped with 
> cameras, lidar, radar and probably sonar. They can see for several 
> hundred metres in all directions. That's an awful lot of data about 
> people, vehicles and neighbourhoods.
> 
> I for one welcome our Google overlords. ;)
> 
> -- 
> David Boxall                         | "Cheer up" they said.
>                                     | "Things could be worse."
> http://david.boxall.id.au            | So I cheered up and,
>                                     | Sure enough, things got worse.
>                                     |              --Murphy's musing
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