Re: Robocar--a decade away?

"peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:TXvhj.6049$hS.2010@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sea Wasp wrote:
>
>>     Oh, in 10 they may have a demonstrator car that does what you want.

>> It will have cost 3.4 million to build, plus all the prior development 
>> costs, and there will be nowhere in America you can actually use it. 
>> After 10 or 20 more years, the laws will have been changed and the
price 
>> may come down.
>
>
>    Last night I discovered that my new car turns on it's own headlights
at 
> night.
>
>   I begin to doubt the timelines.

My '96 Bonneville already automatically turns on its headlights, heat in 
Winter, air in Summer (tho I have to turn it off in Spring and Fall), and 
turn on the radio.

-- Ken from Chicago (who was spoiled by his '88 Taurus that had beeper 
warning about leaving headlights on that several times he left them on his

following cars after the Taurus caught on fire)