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To: Yo-Yo
Driverless cars expected to go mainstream by 2025 No, they won't. It is several orders of magnitude easier to automate an airliner than an automobile, yet who among us would willingly fly in an airplane with no pilot and no ground station controlling it? Another 10-15 years is not going to change that.

I was thinking same thing. Our track record for predicting future trends is not very good

77 posted on 04/20/2013 6:29:53 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk
I was thinking same thing. Our track record for predicting future trends is not very good

According to GM, we should have had automated highways by 1976.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak

79 posted on 04/20/2013 7:00:13 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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