Dan 

I disagree with you on the political issues and won't discuss this with 
you here as that isn't the focus of this list.  Suffice it to say, I, for 
the first time in memory, will be voting straight Republican next month -- 
and I wish I could take back my presidential vote for the November 2008 
election.

On the matter of the automated car, I see it in the same time horizon as 
you do.  And you said my fears better than I could well you mention that 
the driver of that car, at least these days, may have to be more vigilant 
than the driver of the traditional auto.

My sighted wife and I routinely use a Garmon in the car; and it works 
nicely 99% of the time.  But when it is off, and it does happen, it is way 
off.

One of the problems a GPS faces is confusion of addresses and what they 
mean -- or duplicate street names not recotgnized.  We have seen this on 
several occasions and in various locales.
More often than not, it is in growing areas -- The Villages area of 
Florida immediately comes to mind -- or where roads and streets may be 
using multiple address identifiers. 

And to take this confusion further, different automated gps programs and 
services such as GoogleMaps and Mapquest may or may not have a difficulty 
with the same address.

One of the necessary elements of setting up this automated guidance system 
is a refinement of the address system where everything perhaps is 
co-ordinated and may also rely on latitude and longitude co-ordinates as a 
primary or secondary falsafe mechanism.

This might require government intervention to some degree, and frankly I 
want less rather than more of that in my life especially now that I have 
seen what the regime in DC has done (or attempted to do) since Jan 2009.

borrowing an analogy Harry Brown used on this list several weeks back:  I 
personally would rather sit in the back of the bus and be in a truly free 
nation than have so-called full rights in a socialist one.
as, to me, so-called fullrights in a socialist/Communist environment are 
not as valuable as living in a free nation not encumbered by regulation 
overseeing every activity.

Back to that car:  it will come in time, but that time may not 
nec3essarily be in the lifetime of those over 50.







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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