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Okay. This is pretty exciting. As implied by films like Minority Report, remote control cars, if reliable, would reduce risks created by human error. Shaving/Eating while driving, etc. I'm sure errors would still occur from time to time, mechanical breakdown and so on but the routine blunders that cause cars to cross the centerline and plow into oncoming traffic would likely be reduced considerably. Being able to sleep while driving will no longer be a rather funny sight gag in National Lampoon films. Whatever makes driving more safe and efficient is fine by me.
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Robot Cars Racing for $2 Million Prize
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Car&Driver had an article about this a year or so ago. The prime mover on this is the military, but the civilian uses are pretty cool too. I hope they perfect this technology the day after I die, 'cause I don't ever want a self-driving car or motorcycle.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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