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From: mason3@husc9.harvard.edu (Richard Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Techno Terror
Message-ID: <1991May4.223805.847@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 02:38:03 GMT
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In article <982@modus.sublink.ORG> luke@modus.sublink.ORG (Luciano Mannucci) writes:
>> 
>> I see no particular problem, other than some people LIKE to drive.
>> (personally i would HATE this system, i enjoy zipping thru traffic)
>
>I agree. Some people LIKE to drive (me too), but once accepted, the
>driving automation cannot be stopped. The fact that a driver likes
>it or not is meaningless: once computer-driven, the car circulation
>will be to fast to be human operated, soon or later.
>
It's not necessarily true that the super-fast computerized cars will force
all human drivers to conform and give up control of their cars.  After all,
not every sidestreet, back alley and farm road in America is going to be
automated.  At most, I expect a few central highways might be turned over
to computer control, and perhaps just a single lane on those highways (if
the cars can travel three feet apart at 90 mph, that's all you need!)

So old cars and non-conformists aren't forced to participate -- if you
like to drive and don't want to be flattened by a superfast automatic truck,
just stay out of the computer-controlled lane.

-- 
"These things are pure science fiction! And yet they are all true."
                                              -M.O. Rabin
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