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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article ,   
   droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com says...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  Bernard Peek  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On 12/01/14 17:47, Doc O'Leary wrote:   
   > > >> >Building a virtual train out of self-driving bits?  That's kinda like   
   > > >> >building an internet by making self-driving packets.  It'll never   
   > > >> >work.   
   > > > I don't even understand the analogy you're trying to make.   
   > >   
   > > Actually it is a very close analogy because over the Internet packets   
   > > are self-driven. Each packet carries its destination address which it   
   > > uses to tell the hardware where the packet wants to go.   
   >   
   > You either don't understand how the Internet works, or what   
   > "self-driving" means.  My car is not self-driving simply because it   
   > carries a GPS system with a destination address, even if it could be   
   > wired to control the car.  My point remains that, to a large degree,   
   > such a system (including the Internet) is easiest to implement when most   
   > of the travel is done on "rails".   
      
   That's the logic that Detroit was using in their many attempts at   
   producing self-driving cars.  Google is using different logic--their   
   view is that if can't coexist on an ordinary road with ordinary cars   
   driven by human drivers then it is not viable in the market.   
      
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