[ExI] fuel economy vs danger

[BillK]

On 4/4/10, Jeff Davis wrote:
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>  And with apologies to the "you'll never take my steering wheel away
>  until you pry it from my cold, dead hands" crowd, I would point out
>  that the vast reduction in deaths and injuries -- the vast improvement
>  in safety -- that will result from automated driving would be
>  compelling enough all by itself, but when you add the giant heaps of
>  money saved,... well, the writing is on the wall, "Auto-Chauffeur" is
>  on the way.
>
>  No doubt you will say "They can take our lives, but they can never
>  take our freedom!!!!!"  and insist on the right to manual control.
>  Fine.  But you'll have to pay for it.   Your insurance rate for
>  driving time in manual mode will be way high, and who knows what other
>  restrictions will be placed on someone with so little regard for the
>  safety and convenience of his (and it will most certainly be a guy)
>  fellow travelers.
>
>  YMMV. ;-}
>
>


You know the country has gone to the dogs and been taken over by
namby-pamby socialists when they try to stop a guy doing a rollover in
his SUV on the way home from the bar.

You'd never see John Wayne riding an electric moped, would you?


BillK