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   Walter Bushell to Your Name   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   24 Jan 14 09:48:10   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article <240120140855359808%YourName@YourISP.com>,   
    Your Name  wrote:   
      
   > Without massive amount of expensive changes to the roading system and /   
   > or a sudden, and currently immpssible, increase in the functionality of   
   > "artificial intelligence", there's no way to stop the cars going the   
   > wrong way down a one-way street (as one example) simply because Google   
   > Maps told them to.   
      
   Or more spectacularly on the wrong side of a limited access highway at   
   high speed. Anyway human drivers manage both.   
      
   --   
   Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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