Can Billionaire Innovators Succeed in Disrupting How We Get Around?

"Technology moguls are brimming with ideas for bringing flying robots, self-driving cars, people-moving tubes and space-traveling tourists to the sleepy realm of transportation, which hasn’t seen a major shakeup in decades," writes Robillard. "But the people who changed the way you shop, send money and search for information are finding it won’t be as easy to change the way you drive, ride and fly."

"They’re confronting a transportation sector where public investments are drying up, engineers complain about crumbling roads and bridges and it’s been ages since government initiatives created the likes of the Interstate Highway System. So the billionaires are trying to adapt their shared disrupt-or-die ethos to an industry marked by an obsession with safety, heavy regulations and a fear of failure."

"Can these big-thinking magnates fill transportation’s innovation void?"