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* Irwell is correct. Manual transmissions are best. - 3 messages, 3 authors
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TOPIC: Irwell is correct. Manual transmissions are best.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/9e13ce7644212876?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Jan 17 2011 3:12 pm
From: "Ed Pawlowski"
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"hls" <hls@nospam.nix> wrote in message
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> "Bjorn" <gosinn@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7fa5d28f-8467-41c9-
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> This system works really well and may be seen in ever more places as
> time goes by.
> ********
> Where, exactly, is such a system in current public use??
>
> I have seen such concepts in semitechnical magazines (Like Popular
> Science) for years, but never saw one actually commercially and
> publicly deployed.
I saw something recently where GM was building a section of road, maybe a
test track. Of course, they were talking about this in 1965 too.
Construction is a bit slow, I guess.
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 19 2011 11:48 am
From: "Sheldon"
"Ed Pawlowski" <esp@snetnospam.net> wrote in message
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> "hls" <hls@nospam.nix> wrote in message
> news:HL6dnVIaYKmK5qnQnZ2dnUVZ5vydnZ2d@giganews.com...
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>> "Bjorn" <gosinn@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7fa5d28f-8467-41c9-
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>> This system works really well and may be seen in ever more places as
>> time goes by.
>> ********
>> Where, exactly, is such a system in current public use??
>>
>> I have seen such concepts in semitechnical magazines (Like Popular
>> Science) for years, but never saw one actually commercially and
>> publicly deployed.
>
> I saw something recently where GM was building a section of road, maybe a
> test track. Of course, they were talking about this in 1965 too.
> Construction is a bit slow, I guess.
I've seen experiments done on test tracks, and the system works extremely
well. I think the problem is how to wake up the driver when you get to the
end of the wire, and how many cocktails have the occupants of the car had
during the wired trip. Seems to me you could easily place a wire in one
lane of many interstate highways. Your car follows the wire, and you
disconnect when you get off the interstate.
All this said, I think this idea was scrapped with the advent of GPS. I
think very soon, you will see cars that can get from point A to point B
without a driver. Until then, it's still up to the nut behind the wheel to
get the car from one place to another.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 19 2011 2:35 pm
From: Peter Hill
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:48:25 -0700, "Sheldon"
<sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> wrote:
>"Ed Pawlowski" <esp@snetnospam.net> wrote in message
>news:cIydnWxYdsVEUanQnZ2dnUVZ_uednZ2d@giganews.com...
>> ?
>> "hls" <hls@nospam.nix> wrote in message
>> news:HL6dnVIaYKmK5qnQnZ2dnUVZ5vydnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>
>>> "Bjorn" <gosinn@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7fa5d28f-8467-41c9-
>>>
>>> This system works really well and may be seen in ever more places as
>>> time goes by.
>>> ********
>>> Where, exactly, is such a system in current public use??
>>>
>>> I have seen such concepts in semitechnical magazines (Like Popular
>>> Science) for years, but never saw one actually commercially and
>>> publicly deployed.
>>
>> I saw something recently where GM was building a section of road, maybe a
>> test track. Of course, they were talking about this in 1965 too.
>> Construction is a bit slow, I guess.
>
>I've seen experiments done on test tracks, and the system works extremely
>well. I think the problem is how to wake up the driver when you get to the
>end of the wire, and how many cocktails have the occupants of the car had
>during the wired trip. Seems to me you could easily place a wire in one
>lane of many interstate highways. Your car follows the wire, and you
>disconnect when you get off the interstate.
>
>All this said, I think this idea was scrapped with the advent of GPS. I
>think very soon, you will see cars that can get from point A to point B
>without a driver. Until then, it's still up to the nut behind the wheel to
>get the car from one place to another.
http://www.car-addicts.com/videos/sartre-project
Assholes.
1: They can only go as fast as the lead vehicle. As you see that will
be a truck. Dunno about USA but in EU trucks over 3,500Kg have lower
speed limits on all roads.
2: They are all nose to tail so on single carrigeways it won't ever be
possible to overtake the assholes road train.
--
Peter Hill
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