<div>I worry about the computers on board the self-driven cars, being able to successfully navigate around the illogical and dangerous movements of human controlled vehicles. I want to see human driven cars largely be a thing of the past, so tens of thousands of human lives can be saved in the United States. I'm so sick of the carnage going on, and constantly hearing how a friend/acquaintance/relative lost a friend/acquaintance/relative in a horrible car accident. It seems like cancer, heart disease and car wrecks are the killers of the people I care about.</div>
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<div>I vaguely remember reading a wonderful sf short story from the seventies, with a title something like "The Egg." It tells the tale of a Tony Stark-style character who after a near fatal car accident, builds an egg-shaped car that holds the driver in a placenta-like chamber, so that just about any collision can be survived. </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This brings up a whole bunch of interesting questions. I see the Google car puttering around, a couple times a month these days. I have only seen the Stanford car once, but it might be that I just wasn’t up in that neighborhood often enough. It looks to me like this would be a great development for those who like to drink or smoke weed. Or who are old. Or all the above.<u></u><u></u></p>
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