He is a former head of the US intelligent highways program and oversaw public trials of driverless cars in the 1990s.

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We chose our route based on new highways for us rather than what was the shortest route.

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And then obviously a measure that we believe will have bipartisan support to create an infrastructure bank to leverage the public loans to private sector companies that want to help us rebuild our bridges and highways and airports.

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Ask yourselves -- where would we be right now if the people who sat here before us decided not to build our highways, not to build our bridges, our dams, our airports?

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Our highways, railroads, ports, buses and airways allow us to move around our country quickly and efficiently.

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Just imagine what all of us could do to build bridges between business and social entrepreneurs, highways for innovative ideas to fly faster, markets for philanthropic capital to reach impact more effectively, networks of change-makers learning and collaborating.

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With or without rising gas prices, give us a description of what a fuel-efficient America would look like in terms of highways, railroads, housing, office buildings, shopping.

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When the US embarked in the 1950s on the construction of the 42, 795-mile National System of Interstate and Defence Highways, Americans applauded.

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