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JPods was started in 1998 by Bill James, a West Point graduate and infantry veteran to end America's foreign oil addiction.
In 1982 the courts declared the Federal communications monopoly unconstitutional. With Federal control of the means of production ended, with free markets restored, the Internet commercialized.
Unlike the courts ending Federal violation of the Consitution in communications, Federal violation of the Preamble, post Roads, Ports, Commerce, Necessary and Proper, and Amendments 9 and 10 continue in transportation.
In 1975 Congressional study BP-244854, "Automated Guideway Transit" faulted Federal regulations as blocking transportation innovations "except for minor cosmetic changes" for "four to six decades".
Perpetual oil-wars and Climate Change are consequences of Federal violation of the Constitution.
The Boston Tea Party was a demonstration against a government transportation monopoly that triggered a Revolution. To prevent rebuilding that path to war, on Sept 14, 1787 the Constitutional Convention voted 8 states to 3 to forbid Federal taxing to build highways and canals. The Constituiton specifically Divided Sovereignty between Federal sovereignty over warfare and state sovereignty over welfare as stated in the Federal mission statement, the Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The importance of this Divided Sovereignty, this compound-republic is explained in Federalist #9, #10, #28, and threaded though others. Federalist #45 clearly states the prohibition from Federal taxing for highways:
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."
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Here in an image from 2014 of a network setup in Atlantis Energy Systems factory in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Overwhelming Need
Barriers to innovation have been less severe in China than in the US. JPods has existing Letters of Interest for potential JPods networks including customers such as Anshan, Kunming, Linyi, and Jiu Zhai Gou.
JPods intends to build a privately funded mobility network in Secaucus, New Jersey, to demonstrate a cost effective way to move people, cargo, and waste while creating sustainable jobs. Computer controlled, suspended vehicles move 1-6 people or cargo on elevated rails and operate at 10% of the energy required by cars, buses, and trains. Solar panels mounted over the rails can gather enough energy to power the network. We offer on-demand, personal mobility regardless of age, ability, or wealth.
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