Re: Robocar--a decade away?

Ken from Chicago wrote:
> "John" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Car crashes (and there *will* be car crashes, even if only because
>> one of the parties was being driven by a human being doing something
>> astoundingly stupd) involving robot cars are going to cause enormous
>> law suits against their manufacturers.
>
> Yep.
>
> And just like lawsuits against car manufacturers either:
> --The plaintiffs will win because a COMMON DEFECT was proven in a
> series of cars due to flaws in their manufacture or
> --The plaintiffs will lose because there was NO COMMON DEFECT was
> proven in a series of cars and / or the fault will be found in the
> OPERATION / MAINTENANCE of the vehicles.
>
You forgot
--The plaintiffs will win because their lawyer was smart enough to pick 
jurors who didn't like the idea of "robot cars made in Japan taking away
my 
God-given right as an American to drive my own damn car any which way I 
please!"

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