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To: D. Long who wrote (510553)	9/30/2012 9:50:26 AM
From: Tom Clarke	4 Recommendations Respond to of 793964

Any unpaid tickets or other delinquent matters before the court? Robocab might lock the doors, then drop you off at your nearest neighborhood police station.

To: D. Long who wrote (510553)	9/30/2012 12:27:37 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793964

I don't want a robot cab driving me through midtown Manhattan at rush hour. LOL! You bet. I think it is fascinating that we do not crash into each other continuously while driving. Our nervous systems must be drawing on some sort of an incredible ability to calculate and estimate and project motion. I suspect that this capacity is more complex than it seems, and will not be easy to reproduce.....

To: D. Long who wrote (510553)	9/30/2012 4:45:26 PM
From: sm1th	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

I don't want a robot cab driving me through midtown Manhattan at rush hour. Robo cars are not as far away as you might think. A few states are already working on the legal and licensing frameworks to allow it. Google cars have done over 500,000 miles in traffic without incident. At present, they are required to have a human "backup" but the technology exists today.

To: D. Long who wrote (510553)	10/1/2012 9:16:49 AM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

I don't want a robot cab driving me through midtown Manhattan at rush hour. According to Wikipedia, driverless cars have now logged over 300,000 miles of testing, accident-free, with around a dozen equipped cars on the road at any one time. en.wikipedia.org Their publicity and press releases don't specify how many times the control driver has has to intervene, either with braking or steering corrections, only using the term "occasional human intervention". Personally, I'm curious as the dickens about some of the details, and can hardly wait for them to try your suggested "Manhattan test bed" route <g>.