XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 16/12/2025 2:28 pm, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/15/25 07:45, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 14/12/2025 10:40 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>> In Sacramento, California in the years I was in HS 1951-1955 the   
   >>>  authorities parked heavily damaged cars on significant street   
   >>> corners to show the people and young people especially how   
   >>> driving badly could end.   
   >>   
   >> Our Authorities started doing this, maybe 5-10 years ago, on major   
   >> Highways. Sometimes parked in the Parking Lane, sometimes in the   
   >> centre divide.   
   >>   
   >> At first I thought they might have broken down .... but then you   
   >> notice all the bent panels .... and then the Police Tape sort of   
   >> gives it away!!   
   >>   
   >>> I don't know the current yearly death counts but not long ago it   
   >>> was about the same as a medium war.   
   >>   
   >> Back in the 70's, the Road Deaths Count hit, I think, a top of   
   >> 1034 per year in the State of Victoria. Nowadays, after changes   
   >> like compulsory seatbelt wearing, the count is about 225-250 per   
   >> year. Still too high but a hell of a lot better.   
   >   
   > Humans are involved ... don't expect "perfection".   
   >   
   > I guess the next decade's "automobiles" will be like a "Johnny Cab"   
   > ... YOU don't do anything but tell it where you want to go   
      
   Yeap, and it will be 'talking' to all the other vehicles so it will   
   decide how to get you to where you think you want to go.   
      
   Shades of 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Hurricane   
      
   "Other features included Pathfinder, which used magnetic signals built   
   into the road to guide the driver."   
      
   > - assuming that's in its database and assuming you want it all   
   > reported in detail to govt agencies LOOKING to fuck you ...........   
      
   WHAT?? My Government trying to do me over! That'd never happen, would it??   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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