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From: jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga in the news
Message-ID: <387@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 01:24:21 GMT
References: <2089@polya.STANFORD.EDU> <6080003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <333@brambo.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell)
Organization: Copper Electronics Inc. Louisville, KY
Lines: 21
Summary: Whatever happened to...

In article <333@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes:
>In article <6080003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> pdg@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Paul Gootherts) writes:
>>I'm driving down the street at a reasonable speed with a reasonable
>>distance between me and the car ahead.  Suddenly, said car swerves right
>>revealing another car ahead of it *stopped* and waiting to turn left.
>
>I heard of a device a couple of years ago which was designed to handle
>this problem.  It had a computer sensor system like the current thing,
>but rather than putting on the breaks as the current one does it would
>fire two retro-rockets mounted to the front of the car.  I don't think
>I heard what eventually happened to this device.
>

I heard about that too.  They  had to scrap the project because although the
rockets would slow you down in time, they had a nasty side effect of melting
the car in front of you from the extreme heat. 8-)

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