Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Not quite the flying car we were promised...

I know, Rich, we were supposed to be the Jetsons by now. It's the 21st century, and still no flying cars. While we wait, here's an article to peruse from wired.com about cars that drive themselves.



Yeah, I'd be a bit scared.

Amplify’d from www.wired.com

The first time you let the car do its thing is a magically scary experience: You see the cars ahead closing at a rate that activates the “I’m going too fast” reflex; your foot hovers over the brake pedal as your frontal cortex strenuously attempts to override your survival instinct. Cognitively, you know that this system has been meticulously tested by obsessive German engineers who would never let an unsafe car cross the threshold of their shiny factory.

Read more at www.wired.com
 

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