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- From: rcb@druwa.ATT.COM (BakerRC)
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- Subject: Re: Is car pooling for real? (was Re: Are bikes really less polluting?)
- Message-ID: <18560@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:28:09 GMT
- References: <JMC.92Jul15170600@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul22.143141.26046@s1.gov>
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- In article <1992Jul22.143141.26046@s1.gov>, lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
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- > In article <1992Jul22.115302.11565@aoa.aoa.utc.com>, carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:
- > :In article <1992Jul17.033605.20631@cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- > :>In article <1992Jul16.125540.14085@sctc.com>, beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:
- > :>>>The actual solution to the traffic problem is technological - which the
- > :>>>social engineers will hate, because they like engineering people. Namely,
- > :>>>computer controlled cars will permit safe travel at 80 miles per hour,
- > :>>>bumper to bumper, and with 6 foot lanes instead of 12 feet.
- > :>>>The present roads and freeways will than be adequate.
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- > :The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry had an exhibit showing the
- > :proposed highway of the future, including computer-guided cars and
- > :all that. This exhibit was installed in 1961, +/- one year. I
- > :fail to see that we are any closer to a realistic plan to implement
- > :such stuff now.
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- > One assistance to computer control would be a lack of
- > less-than-predictable occurrences, like other cars sharing the road,
- > or at least not other computer-controlled ones. For trains, that
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- This stuff about computer driven cars is bugging me too.
- How does technology that's "just around the corner" figure out:
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- Is that a rock that I should avoid at all costs or is it an empty cardboard box?
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- Should I slow down for that deer ahead just on the side of the road
- or is it just a tree?
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- Is that ice up there on the next bend?
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- How big IS that pothole?
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- I don't believe even artifical inteigence is that far advanced yet.
- Heck, they can't even get a robot to go 5 MPH on mars yet.
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- Robin RADAR Baker
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