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- From: bgg@pta.pyramid.com.au (Ben Golding)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.physics,sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Computer controlled cars (was re: high-tech highways)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.042401.23718@pta.pyramid.com.au>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 04:24:01 GMT
- References: <1625@heurikon.heurikon.com> <R4Q-##A@engin.umich.edu> <11008@cis.rand.org>
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Sydney
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- In article <11008@cis.rand.org> rodger@rand.ORG (Rodger Madison) writes:
- >In article <R4Q-##A@engin.umich.edu>, blagdon@engin.umich.edu (Kenneth James Clark ) writes:
- >> The only system I can think of that currently makes all driving decisions
- >> for you is mass transit.
- >
- >Well, as a previous poster pointed out, most of the nations commercial
- >airlines fly automated systems.
-
- But the commercial airlines are just mass transit, and a very
- successful successful transit system it is too. The posters that
- continually assert that the American public doesn't like mass transit
- seems to forget this.
-
- Ben.
-