Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:48:42 GMT, Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>David Friedman wrote:

 
>> 3. One of my colleagues was involved over a period of several years
with 
>> the project to try to design an intelligent highway--a modern system 
>> along the lines you describe, with cars computer controlled. They 
>> eventually gave up. If it isn't practical now, with current computer 
>> technology, it seems extraordinarily unlikely that it was practical 
>> fifty years ago.
>> 
>> Or in other words, you believe it because it is a good story.
>> 
>Anyway, the biggest drawback to a system like that is the network of 
>"wires" that would need to be laid in the roadways.  Think of the HUGE 
>  project that would be - and there would still be roads that would be 
>"off network" .... or do you think they'd lay wires to every farmhouse 
>and barn?
>
>The driverless car as a taxi system seems to have a future in certain 
>environments.   Just such a system is being piloted at Heathrow 
>Air****t outside London.
>

Nah.  The biggest drawback to the idea is liability.