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Smart Highways for Distracted Motorists

08/02/2005 9:45 AM

Imagine racing from New York City to Washington, D.C. at a speed of 120 miles per hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic while checking your email or browsing for books on-line. "Smart highways" with networks of sensors send collection-detection information to your vehicle's on-board computer, ensuring that you reach your definition safely (and in just two hours). Sound impossible? A group of scientists, automakers, and university researchers plans to turn this vision into reality.

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Drivers

08/02/2005 9:51 AM

The only problem with it is that people like to drive. It only takes one person trying to drive manually to screw the whole system up. It is not in our nature to surrender control to a machine when we have an option not to do so.

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08/02/2005 10:57 AM

You'd have to have a special lane, either for the "smart" cars, or for everbody else.

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08/02/2005 11:04 AM

The New HOV? I wonder how many people will be "I can drive in that lane, hell I can go 120 mph."

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Again!!!??!

08/06/2005 11:23 AM

I have been seeing this article for decades! Until all the vehicles on the road have the technology on them for collision avoidance, and you can force the driver not to drive, it will never happen.

Would be great on long cross country trips, but I doubt many will want to surrender control in town.

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