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   From: dfmanno@mail.com   
      
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    Bernard Peek  wrote:   
      
   > I could probably put together a design for self-driving cars that could   
   > be built with today's technology. What I can't see is a transition state   
   > where some cars are self-driving and others aren't. I think it might   
   > have to be a big-bang transition where from 00:00 on day zero all cars   
   > are required to have all of the systems in place and operational. Cars   
   > (and other vehicles) without the system become museum pieces literally   
   > overnight. It might be simpler (and cheaper) to build a completely new   
   > system and scrap every existing vehicle rather than trying to retrofit   
   > vehicles that were not designed to be self-driving.   
      
   Are you fucking joking? Look at the brouhaha some folks are putting up   
   about the (years-long) phaseout of incandescent light bulbs in the U.S.:   
   crying that their freedoms are being abridged, stocking up with   
   decades-long supplies of the old bulbs, etc.   
      
   Try to take away everybody's car on the same day? You'll have riots in   
   the streets.   
      
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   D.F. Manno | dfmanno@mail.com   
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