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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen Van Sickle<br><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span></b></span><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>Suggestion: we create a special class of self-driving vehicles specifically<br>designed for delivery purposes<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Brad Templeton talks about this pretty extensively here:<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><a href="http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/deliverbots.html">http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/deliverbots.html</a><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>In fact, I don't think there is <i>any </i>facet of robocars he hasn't thought of and discussed on his site.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>--s<br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve thanks man, Brad really has been doing some deep thinking about this. I need to meet him, since I think he is a local. I am pretty sure he and I have crossed paths, but I don’t recall the exact circumstances or when it was. The technophile crowd tends to hang out at the same happenings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Here’s an idea I didn’t see on any of Brad’s posts in his blog. Robo-cars enable super-efficient Diesel powered series hybrid drive. We don’t have that in human guided vehicles, because the acceleration is too slow which is frustrating to meat-based guidance and control systems. The software wouldn’t care if the acceleration is about the same as the yellow school bus, or possibly a little slower than that. If we go that route, we keep the small Diesel motor spinning full throttle, full load, optimum speed, maximum efficiency most of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>