[ExI] self driving cars
Mike Dougherty
msd001 at gmail.com
Sat May 19 02:27:38 UTC 2012
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>>... Mass transit is an equally poor name: Are we hauling the masses as
> figurative terminology for what spike calls proles...
>
> I didn't make up the name, credit the brilliant George Orwell.
Yeah right, but he's not contributing daily to the list. Also, nobody
else I know has the nerve to call 'em "proles" - so it makes me laugh
when I imagine you using the term with simultaneous respect and
disdain. (as a most-important majority and an equally unfortunate
majority)
>>...I assume you are familiar with the coffee house argument for why England
> became an industrial superpower...
>
> Don't know it. Why?
I heard it was French Revolution via coffee house. Whatever. The
underlying argument is that hyped up on caffeine and rabble-rousing
the organizers of change are more energized to overcome the inertia of
the status quo and actually DO something.
> Reasoning: most fuel is burned pushing air out of the way. In that regard,
> air resistance is proportional to frontal area, whereas length is almost
> free, and even that is an understatement: a longer vehicle can have a lower
Hmm... pneumatic tubes? At least then we'd be saying, "If this ride
could suck any harder I'd be there by now"
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