Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!maestro!fransvo
From: fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free will and responsibility.
Summary: How about short trips ?
Keywords: Feedback Loop, Dead Reckoning, Short Trips
Message-ID: <904@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Date: 16 May 89 07:52:24 GMT
References: <10333@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <3850@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <387@nbires.nbi.com> <17754@cup.portal.com> <52019@linus.UUCP> <881@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> <53228@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten)
Organization: AHA-TMF (Technical Institute), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lines: 18

I wrote:

>... if you have a very accurate map ... you can calculate exactly
>what will happen ... Or is the driving not called "controlling"
>in this case ?

Barry Kort responded:

>... after a while, you will no longer have an accurate estimate
>of your actual location on the terrain ...

It is a good point, but for short trips the accuracy may be
sufficient.  So I ask my question again:  Is the driving not
(limited) controlling in the short-trip case ?
-- 
Frans van Otten                     |   fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl    or
Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam       |   fransvo@htsa.uucp              or
Technische en Maritieme Faculteit   |   [[...!]backbone!]htsa!fransvo