Word: mcalinden
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Even if Los Angeles' limited experiment is successful, the technology will not necessarily be widely used. "This is real futuristic stuff," says Sean McAlinden, a researcher with the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. "It's sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller...