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   Walter Bushell to Robert Bannister   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   21 Feb 14 13:56:54   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Robert Bannister  wrote:   
      
   > A difficult one. I don't think car radio is a major problem unless it   
   > has manual tuning. The biggest danger, I suspect, comes from other human   
   > passengers whether small children who need attending or hyped up friends   
   > who divert your attention. Both of these, I think, are worse than mobile   
   > phones. There is also a huge difference between driving through the   
   > desert, seeing another vehicle about every half hour or so and no   
   > pedestrians, and driving along a busy inner-city freeway when everyone   
   > is zipping along at above the speed limit and changing lanes unpredictably.   
      
   And backing up an exit as I say on the Bronx Queens Expressway. The   
   BQE is the NYC terror road, along with the Cross Bronx Expressway.   
      
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