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Re:Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars by saraid216 on Thursday February 16, 2012 @08:06PM (#3601518)
Seattle has a light rail system they only booted up a few years ago. They had to build a completely new set of rails everywhere to do it. I'll admit I don't know the details of its history, since I wasn't paying attention, but it's utterly possible.
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Re:Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars by jfoutz on Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:03PM (#3601708)
If you belive this (http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/07/20/seattles-light...) it took seattle almost 20 years to make that happen. Also, i think that city, in particular, was flush with cash.
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Re:Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars by saraid216 on Friday February 17, 2012 @01:57PM (#3604519)
20 years is on the long side, but I find it a reasonable amount of time to make it happen. And the point was more that it happened, and that it wasn't exactly an isolated case.
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