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The best way to try not to respond to something is to.....
Not respond.
Peter
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Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Fwd: Fw: [acb-l] Google tests cars that can steer
without drivers
Harry
I am not going to even attempt to respond to your comment on the deficit
except to suggest that such a view is misguided as you truly don't
understand what you are saying -- nor does Obama nor the last Bush for
that matter nor most of the 535 House and Senate members in DC who
supposedly are representing their constituents.
Now to the meat and potatoes: A real issue here is how will you integrate
a road system where truly automated cars have to intermingle with
non-automated ones.
Until you can eliminate regular vehicles through normal attrition -- a
process which will take perhaps a couple of decades -- you will require
some sort of override system manned by humans.
This stuff sounds like something out of Huxley or Owell and scares the
living daylights out of me. If this is to be the future, I sure hope the
rapture intervenes taking us out of here as this centralist kind of world
sounds truly like the End Times.
As for Dan's mentioning of automated flight landings, has any airline even
proposed to eliminate pilots and other monitoring personnel from their
cockpits? It is one thing to allow guidance to perform tsks but it is a
whole another to eliminate the human element toally.
A lot of things are theoretically possible and demonstratable, but, for
all sorts of reasons, do we actually want them implemented?
Finally, if such an automated transportation system could be promulgated,
would not those with vested interests fight tooth and nail? Auto
insurance companies provide a livelihood for hundreds of thousands; so do
auto parts suppliers, retailers, autobody shops, et al.
I sense more and more people are seeing what centralized control truly
means, and more and more of us have gotten to the point of not only
disliking it but detesting it.
I don't doubt that we are moving in that direction; but don't forget that
a lot of folks potentially get hurt in the process which hardly would be a
good thing. And those potentially hurt aren't going to stand by just
waving their hands in salute.
The real measure of our wealth is how much we should be worth if we lost our
money.
John Henry Jowett - (1864-1923), English Congregational pastor
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