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   Message 2,724 of 3,290   
   Dimensional Traveler to Chrysi Cat   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   23 Jan 14 19:48:31   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/23/2014 6:55 PM, Chrysi Cat wrote:   
   > On 1/23/2014 5:14 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >> In article , rex   
   >>  wrote:   
   > [snip]   
   >>   
   >>>> Then there are facts like many roads simply not having markings for the   
   >>>> computer to see, or having duplicate markings where the road has been   
   >>>> changed for some reason.   
   >>>   
   >>> But with those, the computer can use the database   
   >>> and knows how the road should be marked.   
   >>   
   >> Again, a MASSIVE task to try and keep it updated. What's the point in   
   >> having a car that can drive itself, when you then have to relgate   
   >> millions of people to doing boring and pointless data entry.   
   >>   
   > Did you say 'data entry'? Wow...I could have a job again! It's really   
   > not that boring for some people...folks like me were capable of doing it   
   > virtually on autopilot!   
      
   Been there, done that, couldn't afford the T-shirt.   
      
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   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   wouldn't tolerate.   
      
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