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Why JPods

Physical liberty, providing the ability to go where you want, when you want regardless of age, ability, or wealth is the Why of JPods.

The HOW of JPods: Start small, iterate relentlessly

WHAT of JPods is solar-powered, commuter range transport of people and cargo in payloads less than 1,200 pounds.  

The digitizing of Mobility As A Service (MAAS) with multiple 10X savings based on the 5X5 Performance Standard of:

  • Exceed efficiency of current approved transport modes by 5 times.
  • Pays 5% of gross transportation revenues for non-exclusive use of Rights of Way.

Uber, Lyft, and urban scooters are just the beginning of how MAAS will develop to replace what is failing.

Current public policies are the cause of Climate Change and growing economic hardship. Moving 2 tons to move a person forces Americans to pay about $2.76 trillion per year on traffic. 16% of our income ($813/monrh) is spent on transportation. Often with some difficulty of finding a spot, cars are pared 95% of the time.

About $1 trillion per year of costs can be recovered as value (customer savings and profitable revenue). Link to PowerPoint and KeyNote presentation. There is over a $trillion per year of waste that can be converted to profits and customer savings by repeating in transportation the success of restoring communication infrastructure to free markets in 1982.

Grade-separation, robotics, and solar collect can convert 70% of current urban traffic costs into jobs, customer savings, and profits. JPods patent (6,810,817):

  • Networks of self-driving cars: “A method of controlling a transportation System for moving people, freight, and any combination whereof using a distributed network of intelligent devices without requiring the aid of a human driver”
  • Solar-powered mobility networks: “The method… providing… Solar and wind power generators integrated into the physical Structure of Said transportation System….”

JPods exist to help convert at least half theses costs into jobs, customer savings, and profits.

ROI Engine – the ecology of single-purpose companies.

Spreadsheet

10X Benefits — Transportation has always been the catalyst for changing energy systems.

Specifying known costs of regulation and regulatory delays.

Red Bull TV, JPods starts at 9:30 (2015). This covers three major areas of change (tinyURL) of self-driving cars, JPods, and Hyperloops.

The solution to traffic problems has been understood for half a century. Morgantown’s PRT delivered 150 million passenger-miles since it opened in 1972.

JPods US Patent improves on the Morgantown PRT in two important ways (6,810,817):

  • Robots replace the central computer control system: “A method of controlling a transportation System for moving people, freight, and any combination whereof using a distributed network of intelligent devices without requiring the aid of a human driver”
  • Networks are solar-powered: “The method… providing… Solar and wind power generators integrated into the physical Structure of Said transportation System….”

 

Source: Congressional Study PB-244854, “Automated Guideway Transit”, 1975.

Finding: “institutional failures” within US DOT resuted in urgban transportation innovation being blocked for “four to six decades” in urban mobility except for “relatively minor cosmetic changes“. See page 41.

Recommendation: Allow Rights of Way access so networks such as Morgantown’s PRT can be built in US cities to solve traffic problems and the hardships of the 1973 Oil Embargo.

Tricia Nixon opened the first self-driving car network on Oct 24, 1972. She said it was “more fun than Disneyland.” The Federal highway monopoly has blocked further deployments of PRT in America since. That same highway policy caused the bankruptcy/abandonment of nearly half the freight railroads despite 400+ ton-miles per gallon efficiencies.

 

We have already passed the tipping point.

Self-driving cars are the Motorola Razr of Digital Mobility™, digital devices on the analog highway network. JPods and Hyperloops are digital devices on digital networks. As soon as we begin deploying networks, the rate of change will become extraordinary.

 

Summary of the Speed and Scale of the changes coming by digitizing mobility:

Capital Investments:

TEDx Atlanta: Link

TEDx Mid-Atlantic

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/loan-programs-office

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