[ale] [TOTALLY OT] road trains - what I've been squawking we need for years - fewer drivers!

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Jim Kinney wrote:
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> The fewer idiots we have piloting cars, the few wrecks so we can make 
> them lighter. The lighter the car, the less fuel is needed to move it.
> 
> I welcome our robotic overlords (as long as it's not running a variant 
> of windows :-)


"Another story in our continuing series, the 16 deaths today in a 50 mph 
construction zone along Interstate 285 were apparently the result of a 
passenger plugging in an iPod after the vehicle wirelessly updated the 
motion control system.  It is thought that the user was trying the 
latest kernel version in an attempt to get the audio to play correctly 
while the communication system was in operation..."