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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