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Advantages:

1. Zero vehicular deaths.
2. Zero pollution.
3. Zero reliance on foreign oil.
4. No more oil wars.
5. No more oil spills.
6. No climate change.
7. No drunk driving. You just enter the address where you want to go like in a GPS or select from your favorites and the PMV drives itself on a smart highway.
8. No traffic jams.
9. No accidents to slow things down.
10. No gawker delays.
11. No intersections, traffic lights, or stop signs to stop at, which means much faster commutes.
12. No slow drivers.
13. No crazy drivers.
14. Lanes can be built and added in three dimensions. Adding or maintaining a lane does not affect any other lane.
15. Traffic is automatically load-balanced.
16. Impossible to get lost.
17. Impossible to run out of fuel.
18. Impossible to get a flat tire.
19. Much cheaper energy costs.
20. Less maintenance costs since there are no moving parts.
21. No need for auto insurance.
22. Much, much faster than cars. 200 mph commutes inner city possible. Supersonic travel from LA to NYC possible.
23. Never have to park. Self-parking. Self-valet.
24. No need to waste surface area on parking lots. Parking buildings can house many more PMV than car parking buildings or parking lots. This frees up land for other uses.
25. You can fuck or get some work done rather than wasting your commute to work.
26. You never have to worry about being to old to drive as PMV drive themselves.
27. No need to carry around ID.
28. You can be pissed drunk and still safely get to where you want to go.
29. No speeding tickets or speed traps.
30 No parking tickets or inadequate parking.
31. No need for expensive, heavy batteries.
32. Tourism increases as it becomes far more convenient and fast to travel long distances.
33. You'll never have to fly again or put up with the TSA.
34. A world-wide PMV system could make it cost only a few dollars to hope over to Europe or the South Pole direct from your house.
35. Cheap space travel. Yep, you could stay in a space hotel that you can ride in comfort to in a PMV. I've done the math on this. 10 degree incline, spiral track with 1 mile radius, about 4 hours to get 70 miles above sea-level at 100 mph. 60 miles is considered outer-space.

Only disadvantage? The creation of so many well-paying,long-term jobs that this depression ends, tax revenue goes up, deficit declines, and growth skyrockets.

This is the kind of stimulus spending we need. Not bailing out bankers, real estate speculators, and fighting endless unwinnable and unethical wars from the Middle East to the War on Drugs.

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