Outside Pittsburgh, for example, electronic signs on Interstate 80 warned motorists for miles ahead of time to expect clogged highways on the way to the airport.
"We have 6,000 to 7,000 miles of road time with the electrics, and they perform as well or better than the diesel trucks," he said.
Plugless charges at a rate of about 7.2kW, which provides a minimum of 20 miles of driving time per hour, and it's rated for use either indoors or outdoors.
But Comma's self-driving kit has logged only about 5,000 miles of road time, a number that is effectively a useless barometer for judging safety, said John Simpson of the safety advocacy group Consumer Watchdog.
In his campaign, flying the equivalent air miles of five times round the globe to meet Fifa's vote-wielders in person, Infantino has shown himself to be not just a technocrat, but shrewdly aware of football's political heart: self-interest.
According to a 2000 report from the National Center for Policy Analysis titled Banning Roads, Burning Forests, the National Forest System has over 383,000 miles of roads eight times the mileage of the interstate highway system on its 192 million acres.
After the ceremony, I caught up with Maude as she stood amid the curious tufts of yucca and gazed out at miles and miles of desert, since time immemorial the home of Kayumarie, the spirit of the Blue Deer, and the Huichol hunting grounds for their sacred hikuri, or peyote.
And if a Blackhawk helicopter was dispatched to attack his outpost he would hear it thundering across the valley from miles out, leaving plenty of time to flee.
If a driver mishears a mumbled note from his co-driver in the barren desert, they can miss a checkpoint by miles – losing monstrous amounts of time and leaving a lot of awkward silences in camp that night.
