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Five years (and two deaths) later the teenage girl and her
brother celebrated the City installing stop lights at her intersection. Ten years later, the brother was paralyzed
and his sister killed at her intersection in a crash that the super-polite cars
would have avoided.
You are the little girl, or her big brother, or her mom, or her dad. You won't know if Cities, States, or Nations will listen to you unless you try. Check the Letters page, if you don't know what to say.
For example, local transportation agencies could adopt resolutions such as:
Sample RESOLUTION FOR
BEST AVAILABLE
TECHNOLOGY FOR TRANSPORTATION
WHEREAS, it is the duty of local
transportation agencies, where the rubber meets the road, to express their
needs for the best available technology to the State agencies that can plan and
direct the provision of the best available technology; and
WHEREAS, the currently best available
technology, arising from Intelligent Transportation Systems, is accident-free
motor vehicles that also avoid collisions with bicyclists and pedestrians; and
WHEREAS,
the technology for accident-free motor vehicles also eliminates traffic
congestion; and
WHEREAS,
the best available technology will prevent most of the 6,000,000 American motor
vehicle accidents and most of the over 40,000 American deaths each year; and
WHEREAS, the best available
technology’s accident prevention will substantially reduce auto insurance costs;
and
WHEREAS, the best available technology
makes business more efficient with time savings (no congestion), insurance/loss
savings (no accidents), and tax/toll/fee savings (more service from existing
facilities, not more facilities); and
WHEREAS, the best available technology can
be more fossil fuel efficient than traditional mass transit and current private
vehicles.
NOW, THEREFORE, the
______Transportation Commission requests the _____ Department of Transportation
adopt the goal of eliminating multi-vehicle accidents, halving
vehicle insurance, eliminating traffic congestion, and raisingCalifornia’s (or your state or country) average
passenger miles per gallon above 50 pmpg with a net decrease in the average
citizen’s transportation expense by 2020.
PASSED,
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this ______ day of _____________, 2008.
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