On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 2:33:02 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 2:41 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> > When I said that electric cars and self-driving cars were the future, it was met with the usual ridicule on Usenet. The time frame for these technologies will be sooner than people think. You guys are gonna look awfully shortsighted by people reading this 20 years from now. This is why I don't mind the general scoffing that goes on here. It's simply adorable.
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> I tend to agree with you. Tesla showed some video today and all their
> cars will be equipped for self driving.
> http://jalopnik.com/its-not-vehicula...-mu-1788028573

We need folks like E. Musk to show us the wrong way to introduce this technology to the public. What's interesting about the Teslas is that it doesn't look like a test mule with a bunch of sensors sticking out of it. What this tells me is that they're taking shortcuts with the environmental sensors.