If it costs $100m/year to run a single hospital, it will probably cost, what, 1/10th of that to maintain a fleet of self-driving high-speed ambulances?
The highways will need to be built on the state/federal level, most transportation is that way.
The highways will need to be built on the state/federal level, most transportation is that way.
And did it seem absurd 100 years ago to expect a nation-wide system of 55mph highways?
I'm pretty sure that it did seem absurd, and yet we're all better off for it in the end. Transportation infrastructure has a huge long tail of benefits.