> I don't think anyone has seriously explored collaborating with DoT. If they had they would have at least talked about it. Collabing with DoT is a terrible id

> I don't think anyone has seriously explored collaborating with DoT. If they had they would have at least talked about it. Collabing with DoT is a terrible idea imo. Anyone who has seen anything any DoT in America has tried to do in the last few decades should immediately know why. It will cost an astronomical amount of money along with an equal time length. To put "wires in road", it would likely be a project on the scale of trillions and 50+ year deadline. It won't happen, it's more feasible to solve the problem of how to have smart cars on dumb roads rather than relying on bloated and corrupt DoT & contractors to do the work of making smart roads. This isn't even to mention the likely quagmire of what happened with early railroads where the rails laid by different companies weren't compatible with each other and you had to switch to an entirely different train to continue your journey.