Posted on 07/31/2020 11:02:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
I will grant you this. At some point, perhaps in Boomers’ lifetimes, certainly Millenials’, using major public thoroughfares will not be allowed for non-automatic vehicles.
You need 100% automatic participation for high speed vehicular traffic to work. The good news is that there will be fewer, if any, traffic jams and the flow will be between 70 and 100 MPH. I am certain conversion kits will be available for cars built prior to smart cars b/c the market will demand them.
Since that phrase has come out of leftist-controlled governments and corporations a little too often, I doubt it’s paranoia. The USSR always insisted on looking to “the future”, which was part of the Manifesto’s doctrine of a communist society’s “present control(ling) the past”.
With all due respect, the autobahn has proven that false for decades, and with far higher speeds than 100 mph.
You need 100% automatic participation for high speed vehicular traffic to work …
No. Sorry, but glowing promises like this in exchange for surrendering your autonomy bespeaks a false claim.
The good news is that there will be fewer, if any, traffic jams and the flow will be between 70 and 100 MPH …
It is going to happen, your protestations notwithstanding.
You basically sound like a Luddite. Why are you even on the Internet? Do you realize the number of rights you gave away to do so?
According to whom?
Something like that would be heaven on earth for terrorist hackers. Instant miles-long pileup with guaranteed low-survival-rate carnage and months or even years of cleanup.
But this thread isn’t about that.
PS. The National Automated Highway Consortium is located on the campus of Berkeley University in California.
Luddism refers to rebellion against a technology that people want that is generated by the private sector, since by such demand it is making a past product obsolete. It would be like a pager manufacturer attempting to stop affordable and portable cellphones from proliferating instead of adapting to the new demand.
I do not know where you got the notion that one has to give away rights to use the Internet. Sounds like the notion that one somehow gives away rights to obtain a driver’s licence. Like in any sphere of life, one asserts one’s inborn rights, as the Constitution’s Bill of Rights points out, and there is nothing impeding one’s assertion of rights on the web unless it’s a tyrannical government (usually foreign).
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