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> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 12:31:22 +0100, "Ophelia"
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>> >Nor would I but then I wouldn't want a car to control itself over my
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>> I imagine there will be over rides. The tracking and stopping though,
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>> is good for safety.
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> An aulde idea, O... :
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> http://www.wired.com/2009/11/autonomous-cars/
> €œIn the 1950€²s General Motors and RCA teamed up to develop automated
> highway technology (.pdf) that used a buried wire and magnetic pickup
> coils on the car. The buried line communicated the speed limit to the
> vehicle and warned of obstacles ahead. Engineers demonstrated the
> technology in 1958, using a 1958 Chevrolet Impala and, later, the
> streamlined turbine powered Firebird III concept car. Even Disney got in
> on the act with the animated short Magic Highway USA. But GM and RCA
> couldn't convince the feds to spend the additional $100,000 per mile that
> automated highway technology would add to the cost of the national highway
> system...€�

Now they are talking about new cars having to have a 'black box' which
transmits your speed etc back to TPTB Not in any car I own it won't.

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