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You may want to scan the sample letters, below, for one that fits your viewpoint, or for laughs. Further below the sample letters, you will find e-mail addresses for selected political candidates.

Experts, including Caltrans planners, have realized we have the technology to build cars that won’t have accidents. And those experts recognize that accident-free cars relieve congestion. If you add brains instead of lanes or buses and trains, you get individual cars with the carrying capacity of mass transit. We could safely put 2 to 3 times the cars in the same lane mile. We can eliminate congestion without more lane-miles by using our brains so that cars behave like mass transit, whenever congestion threatens.

Consider your typical editorial, “Highway death toll is frightening.” In general, we’ve been working hard on all the safety measure and appeals to responsible driving for half a century. And we have had success, likely keeping the carnage at a little over 40,000 American deaths a year. A less intensive effort would have at least twice the deaths. Accident-free cars would quickly reduceAmerica’s traffic accidents from 6,000,000 to less than 60,000 per year (deaths from 42,000 to less than 400).

The technology is on the road and evolving. Local transportation planners and elected representatives need to better plan for it.

Please let California lead on innovative solutions for improved traffic safety and congestion relief. A national program will be too slow and messed up. I’m not interested in paying $billions to pave the planet. Subsidizing 20^th Century mass transit isn’t a big thrill either. Please ask Governor Swartzenegger to plan for the new technology described at www.GuardianAngelCars.org.

Please ignore most of the b___s___ at www.GuardianAngelCars.org. I’ve got plenty of money to avoid congestion by using toll roads. Or I’ll buy a helicopter. But it would be nice knowing the jerk in the Hummer cannot rearend my Lotus.

Conversant technology, better explained at www.GuardianAngelCars.org, is the seat belt and fuel-efficient mass transit of the 21^st Century. And it protects police officers on the side of the road, construction workers, bicyclists, and pedestrians as well as all drivers.

Compare the alternatives. With the 20^th Century approach to traffic congestion,California pisses away $20 billion ($600 per car) for no real safety improvement and reduces traffic congestion from 100 hours per year to perhaps 95 hours per year very briefly. With Conversant technology, Californian’s eagerly buy the technology when buying a new car. (NO taxes required.) But the conversant technology could save thousands of lives, billions of dollars (pays back $3,000 per car over 20 years of reduced auto insurance premiums), and is the 21^st Century mass transit – dropping congestion toward 10 hours per year. Make the most of our existing infrastructure. Use the $19 billion on repairs and $1 billion on the Challenge.

I'll bet you could find a way to gather half the money everyone will save on transporation and use th savings to pay for child health care and education.

Seems like I've been an AARP member since before you were born. In a few years I won’t be allowed to drive on the freeway. I’ll be fine on surface streets for a decade or so, except for the occasional building. But what I see at http://GuardianAngelCars.org would keep me, and all those young people near me, safe in the fast lane. Or maybe I’ll go for the “super convenient carpool.”

One friend was an innocent victim of a police chase. Another died when an a__h___ ran a red light. Please do something worthy of your hi-tech success to reduce the carnage! I’m disgusted that congestion relief gets the money, the attention of most people, and the political will. In fact, our society’s general acceptance of accidents as “just the price of operating cars” is disgraceful.

The technology is on the road and evolving. Go after the big reduction in auto insurance costs by reducing accidents. Our best efforts to date is still 6 million accidents, 40,000 American deaths a year. Isn't it everyone’s responsibility to wear seat belts? We use traffic lights, air bags, and anti-lock brakes. Essentially, we have plenty of “crutches” to compensate for the occasional bad driving decision. My friends would be alive, had we added conversant technology to the mix. Let’s keep using our brains to make driving safer.

Dear 2008 Presidental Candidate,

Guide the evolving motor vehicle technology as described at http://GuardianAngelCars.org.

I can see that robotic cars are coming, and I want them trained not to hit me.

A disproportionate number of children are pedestrians or bicyclists. They are regularly endangered by bad drivers. We need to keep children safe.

Consider these apparently unrelated facts.

40% of motorcycle deaths are from when a car left turns in front of the motorcycle. Pulling out in front of and left turns in front of are also a big concern for bicyclists.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) breakthrough research on real-world driver behavior indicates any distraction, even singing along or daydreaming increases danger.
The NHTSA International Walk to School Month/Planner for pedestrians, bicyclists, and school bus riders recognizes traditional childhood transportation is riskier than it should be. (A year ago, a child was killed by a school bus in my town.)
NHTSA is providing $600 million over three years to assist states in developing safer conditions for pedestrians.
You can buy a device that will verbalize your e-mail for answering while driving. (Ad was in an October 2006 Newsweek.)

Sincerely,

Bicycle Commuter

Dear No Growth Politician

I’m torn. Accident-free vehicle technolgy, won't be paving the planet while spending $billions better spent on Climate Crisis solutions. But the technology eliminates my attempt to control sprawl by allowing commute times to become unbearable. And it obsoletes my pet 20^th Century public transit program. And what if people feeling safer walking and bicycling causes them to bicycle or walk a lot more?

Include human-electric hybrid vehicles among Climate Crisis solutions, and you’ve got my vote.

Sincerely,

Ima Green

The concepts at www.GuardianAngelCars.org are an insult to my god and the American way of life. We should dedicate more money to my place of worship, the freeway. My god demands the sacrafice of innocents and regular attendance at freeway race services. You cannot deny me the spiritual high of weaving between the lessor devoties at 90+ mph. I'll sue for freedom of religion.

Follow the money. The concepts at www.GuardianAngelCars.org could eliminate the economic and emotional costs of traffic accidents, and the economic costs of traffic congestion. And the result is money in the bank! After ten years of investing, the people of California will recover 5x their investment over the following ten years. And this investment continues to pay dividends indefinitely.

The Challenge at www.GuardianAngelCars.org would put me, out of work. How can that be good for America? Consider all the money I won't have to donate to your election campaigns. Think of all the innocent court reporters, trial lawyers, insurance adjusters, and hospital emergency rooms that can't survive the reduced business. Please stop this technology before I have to sell my yacht!