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Computerized Navigation Systems to the Rescue
Rhys_Lewis writes "There is an article in Newsweek discussing the advantages of traffic avoidance systems in big cities around the world. I can't help thinking that it would be cheaper to subsidise in-car satnav units with traffic avoidance than building new freeways. Surely it makes sense to interactively route traffic than to keep building passive roads?"
Picture this: you sailing down city streets at freeway speeds, with perpendicular streams of traffic flowing through another through the magic of precise timing. The microsoft based system says "critical update required" and you skip it of course, you will download it later. Your car is backdoored, and a 13 year old plays some real life GTA, and drives your car in the other lane. You collide at freeway speed headon with another car going the same speed in the opposite direction. You also hit 50 pedestrians. You lose, the kid wins 60 points, 1 for each pedestrian and 10 for the car destruction
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Enough of this bullshit! Driving is fun, and maybe people should just pay attention to the road and get off the damn telephone!
"There's a big pileup two miles ahead - your alternate route is coming up right after a word from our sponsor."
Stupid sexy Flanders.