Re: Robocar--a decade away?

"PV" <pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> And if any of your robocar's needs include additions to
>>infrastructure, you can forget about it.
>
> For sure. Public infrastructure lags decades behind new technology - it
> took half a century to get the national highway system after cars were
> invented, and that really happened for military reasons.
>
> That last bit would be the one thing that would drive such a development
> any faster than glacier speed. The military badly wants auto-drive 
> vehicles
> both for downsizing and for safety reasons - the DARPA grand challenge
> proves that. Though I have to say I was astounded how well the cars
> improved over the previous year, they are a very, very long way away
from
> being practical in any situation where you don't really care if you jump
> the occasional curb or run over the occasional pedestrian - like in a
war
> zone. *
> -- 
> * PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
>       like corkscrews.

Expressways lack curbs and pedestrians.

-- Ken from Chicago