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Alright, right now i just heard that in sand diego in ca is now in process a computer power highway, that means that everybody will stay the same distants and speed, then you press a button to go off ramp or exit, and your on by yourself again like regular driving..that means i cant race in the freeway no more if they put it everywhere in the future!!!!

 
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but if everybody is same distance and speed they could go faster like 100 and no more traffic jams........dont worry that'll never happen

 
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i hope not.....

 
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Yeah like my grandpa was saying the same cars are still out today they still run on gas and oil so maybe by the time I get close to his age we will have something besides a car and faster but who knows LOL

 
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You know...I think I'll hold you to that one.

 
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everyone said the year 2000 we would have flying cars (ie back to the future) and lasers...sorry didnt happen

 
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For those people who want to go the same speed they need to get on the metrorail or bus.
I like being able to put my foot down and fly past little old ladies.

 
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sounded like a good idea, but what about emergencies? plus if it's controlled by a computer of some sort, you'd have to deal with software problems and/or hacking of some sort

 
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yea..thats part of the problem they are discussing right now like "what happen if it malfunction?" yada yada yada..and ill get recent news soon if i here something new...but if they do put that, everybody could go faster and without cause of traffic and accident and plus, you can relax on long @$$ trip like from NY to CA!! LOL and yea.....

 
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doesnt this sound an awful lot like that new movie minority report??? only they used magnets or something if that happens it wont be for at least another 30 years, i mean who has that kind of money especially when our economy is going down the $hitter.

 
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Acually we do have lasers, plenty of them. But back to the topic, I read about this also. I hope it doesn't happen, thisnk about how much money taxpayers will have to pay for building and maintaining these things.

 
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It won't happen anytime soon. Think of the millions of cars and hundreds of thousands of miles in pavement that would have to be retrofitted. No way, the roads and vehicles are roughly the same now as they were 50 years ago and probably will 50 years into the future as well. Of course, the cars themselves will be better overall with luxury, safety and fuel economy.

Minority Report... that movie did a really good job in predicting the look of the future IMO... everything seemed to fit. It's the first movie in quite a while that I actually loved. SEE IT if you haven't! I got in free because my friend works there and she gets free tix for anyone anytime[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]

 
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Minority report was pretty good and i think it had some pretty accurate predictions (i want a comp like that [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG] )

but things like this probably arent too far in the future, i doubt any of us will be alive when it happens though

were making things that are leading up to great accomplishments such as this one and we probably wont be around to see the culmination of a lot of things (which blows IMO)

then again were ruining the world and it probably wont be livable when they do have this so i guess that defeats the purpose of making it , but thats a whole other topic

 
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i dought any of this stuff will happen
if any thing cars will be slower because of the damn governs.....

 
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alright...tell me more about your comment about this...time for me to go to sleep..LOL

 
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I live in San Diego so I'll let you guys know when I see a Macintosh passing me on the highway. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG] j/k

 
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actually what theyre doing isnt as raddical as what you see in minority report. all they are doing to the highways is putting magnets (about the size of a roll of quarters) in the middle of the lane about 3 feet apart from eachother (equidistant). then special receivers on the bottom and front and rear of the car monitor the magnets on the road and and the distance from the car in front/rear of it and adjusts the cars speed accordingly.
im sure its still gonna take time and taxpayers' money, but the idea is not that far off from reality. the cars are still the same as they are now, just with some new sensors and regulators and such.

on a side note, anyone can have a laser these days for like $15...just get a pointer or something, that counts [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]. and the flying car is also in development right now. there was a thread about it like a month or 2 ago. its really pretty cool.

i personally would like to go my own speed when i drive, thats what im still one of the few people that actually likes to drive my car...imagine that concept...LOL so i hope they only make specified lanes like this, maybe something like the carpool lane.