May. 12 at 8:17 PM
$OUST As the Autonomy Institute powerfully illustrates, America is repeating the fatal error of the early 1900s: while the world shifts to autonomous vehicles, AI-driven logistics, drones, and edge intelligence, we continue bolting fragmented fiber, 5G small cells, EV chargers, lidar, and sensors onto outdated 20th-century poles, ITS cabinets, and separate permitting processes. Each deployment comes with its own power draw, street digging, and price tag—turning our communities into “blight-ridden third-world” relics instead of the intelligent, resilient backbone our economy demands.
This is not progress; it is abdication. Twenty years of failing to deliver 21st-century transportation have already cost us one million preventable road deaths, fifty million life-altering injuries, a
$10 trillion economic wound, and over
$100 billion in bankruptcies for American innovators.
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