[ExI] IoT futurists' predictions - not bad

[William Flynn Wallace]

In 190? there were two cars in Indiana.  They wrecked.  That is, each
other.





This is now considered an urban legend, but if true it is not a surprise to
me. spike


Well, that may be so, but psychologically it is interesting to me that it
keeps going around.  That is, people are quick to believe it's not a joke;
like you they are not surprised.  Surely you have seen lists of happenings
and you are to pick the one which actually did happen, and all of them are
unlikely at best, but one of them did happen.


bill w

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >…In 190? there were two cars in Indiana.  They wrecked.  That is, each
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> This is now considered an urban legend, but if true it is not a surprise
> to me.  Two guys in the same town, first ones with cars, and you know they
> were most likely guys, and most likely young.  They rumble around town, no
> rules of the road, no firmly established law.  What is about to happen
> here?  Of course they will.  They could scarcely resist the temptation to
> race that other guy.
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> Cars in those days had lousy tires, lousy brakes, terrible handling and
> suspension, just plain crummy everything.  Get one going over about 40 MPH
> on the questionable roads at the time, the endgame is as foreseeable as the
> sunrise.
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> Note how quickly car racing drove the technology.  I am hoping that
> robot-car racing gets going soon.  That will be fun.
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> spike
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