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An automated car could drive you to work, then go somewhere else and move other people around while you work.

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Automated cars are so much more important than automated flight, just because we have so many cars and some largish fraction are piloted by angry, bored, distracted, stupid, tired to the point of sleeping, and yes, drunk amateurs. Automation is not a switch, it is a continuum. Probably long before we have automation we will have aids in the car that make it much harder to fnork up and die. Just like planes make loud obnoxious noises when the plane seems to be flying in to the ground, the smarter the car the more usefull will be its bitching us out when we are headed off the road or into another car.

I am so looking forward to getting in to my car and taking a nap or surfing the web while it takes me where I am going. Why don't I use public transportation you may ask? It doesn't go from my house to where I want to go in anything like the comfort and speed of a car, even to the point where my having to pilot the car with all my defects still makes the car a good deal for me.

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