Re: Robocar--a decade away?

"C.O. Jones" <apair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:100120081715546947%apair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <4786A889.6060708@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sea Wasp
> <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> C.O. Jones wrote:
>> > In article <47861FC9.7070005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sea Wasp
>> > <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>>Expressways lack curbs and pedestrians.
>> >>
>> >> I'm sure the guy who's walking along the side of the road to get gas
>> >>after running out will appreciate that when you run him over.
>> >>
>> >> More im****tantly, if it only works on the expressway, it's
pointless,
>> >>unless it basically adds no cost to the vehicle. But adding automated
>> >>controls to fuel, brake, and steering WILL add cost (there's
>> >>motors/moving parts involved there). Very very few people will pay
the
>> >>additional thousands of dollars for the auto-drive if it doesn't work
>> >>pretty much everywhere.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sort of the way that people buy 4 wheel drive because it is so
>> > desperately needed to pull out of the driveway and take the
interstate
>> > to work downtown?
>> >
>>
>>  They buy them because (A) they're cool, and (B) the magic Four Wheel
>> Drive supposedly gives you more control.
>
> Are you saying that you missed my point? Specifically (if you DID miss
> the point) of why people, possibly MANY people would buy a robocar?
>
> If I can quote you: "Because (A) they're cool, and (B) the magic
> "auto-drive" supposedly gives you more control."
>
> -- 
> //////////    \\\\\\\\\\\
> The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
>            -- Harlan Ellison

Robocar = robochaffeur = elderly can finally "drive" cars again (at the 
speeds they want while other robocars will drive swiftly around them) = 
ridding the roads of drunk drivers, cell phone drivers, sleepy drivers, 
distracted drivers.

-- Ken from Chicago