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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (242625)7/24/2005 9:04:39 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (1) of 1572423
 
tigerpaw,

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Imagine, if you will, that mass transit consisted of a lot of driverless cars controlled by networked computers.


I don't need to imagine - I worked with people that tried to develop a system like that in Culver City California after GM bought Hughes RADAR systems. The Delco division was trying to finds ways to leverage their technology acquisitions into vehicles. Everyone was talking about electronic content at the time and how they would make a ton of money. Every day I saw the test vans leave for testing the anticollision system and pilot less driving guided by beacons planted along the 405. To this day the only thing I think commercially developed was the rear looking camera to aide in parking buses and motor homes and some simple collision warning systems.

Driver less vehicles do not solve any real issue we have before us today - not fuel, pollution or security.

That said - I agree we need to spend more money on mass transit as a nation.
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