In science fiction, T4P is a wildly popular global initiative to enhance the role of participating truck drivers, making them citizen diplomats on the road. Truck stops become a lot more like campus extensions in many cases, as the Global U provides more services.
Today we're seeing some successful pilots. More truckers are using GoPro type devices while the simulation software (similar to flight simulator) continues to improve.
A primary focus are routes in the Americas and in Asia, with more development in Africa yet to come.
Yes, we understand about Peak Oil. That's why squeezing more value from every barrel of oil makes sense.
Using those precious barrels to destroy infrastructure using warships and warplanes is what's clinically insane. Private single occupant commutes, leaving half the housing stock empty, is another symptom of species insanity.
But trucking (transporting) goods and people (a bus is a kind of truck) is still the important work of a lot of people.
Unfortunately, the District of Columbia seems hellbent on surrendering to Planet of the Apes type warlords and putting its PR powers behind ramping up more wars. The T4P network cannot assume DC's PR machine will give a shred of attention to our investment banking.
All the PR tasks, from logo design to storyboarding, has to go on without much support from the central planners in charge of all the wartime socialism. Getting the audio channels to trucker cabs, in various languages, is taking time.
