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Hi Peter and all,
That was a short lived 60s sitcom, think of the implications! Sarcastic
in this context naturally.
Autonomous vehicles are in their infancy and like any infant are
experiencing growing pains. I don't know just which sci-fi writer dreamed
them up so long ago but we all know with any concept that doesn't defy
the laws of physics anything is possible. I've seen those robot races
before, one of the science TV programs featured a competiotion some years
ago, pretty funny stuff when some decided to do their own thing.
Check out the Reading UK university robotics site, you'll meet the
professor (of course as usual the name escapes me) and somewhere in there
you'll find him with his Dalek. The BBC had only one left from the old
Doctor Who series squirreled away in the shop, when the new Doctor came
back from Gallifrey it all began again and this time with a vengeance. I
never got to see Torchwood and now it's all gone away again, oh well. At
least we didn't have to put up with UNIT the last time around, I hope the
rest of the British Armed Forces have a bit more sense but I digress.
Back to the cars, better than a Dalek are those fighting robots. They'd
give a whole new meaning to "smashup on the motorway". (;->) Hey I just
remembered, again a foggy memory of a Mad Max sort of movie. Indy better
watch out for those autonomous road trains built like battle tanks
zooming across the Outback. They give one warning over the PA, YOU ARE IN
VIOLATION, CLEAR THE HIGHWAY and they never stop for anything. If you
don't move, they MOVE you... the hard way.
Science fiction becomes science fact, always.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 14:57 on 2008-Mar-07 GMT
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