Since you clearly are aware that political comments are off topic, why do
you insist on making them. I disagree with you completely and do not accept
your characterization of the politics involved or our President. So what?
please keep it to the tech topic at hand or others of us will also have to
weigh in. 

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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Autonomous navigation.

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.
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