How Did I Miss This One 3716

(Brent P)

A nation filled with 100 million Buicks? That's a scary throught...

I think I'll wait until they have a control module for Corvettes. ;)

And how many 60-ton rail cars roll over them on an average day?

The fact remains that we already have high-speed transportation machines and the Claybrooks of the world have not succeeded in eliminating them or slowing them down.

But they will behave like trains. That convoy of Buicks, each precisely 15 feet behind the one in front, resembles nothing so much as a train of railroad cars.

Actually, a blowout on a computer-controlled car is both less likely and less dangerous. For one thing, the wheels will have sensors for both temperature and air pressure, and will be able to sense the conditions that could lead to a blowout and take pre-emptive action. And, if a blowout occurs anyway (such as by hitting a pothole or other road debris), not only will the computer be more capable of safely guiding the vehicle to the side of the road, but all the other vehicles in close proximity will automatically make way for the disabled car, thanks to the local area wireless network that the cars will communicate over.

This is buttuming, of course, that not all tires in the utopian future are EMTs. ;) -- What the heck, I'll play too. - Dave