Comment Fact versus Fiction (Score 2, Insightful) 883
The paper in the first link is just that - it's a paper. This is something that is THEORETICAL. Not something that is actual. It's like Hydrogen powered cars - until you can actually buy it, it is a bunch of hot air.
As for the second article, the notion of cars talking to eachother and the roads is great. That's not the world we live in yet though. This requires auto-makers to start adding this to their cars, as well as massive expensive modifications to the road system. Convincing every state, county, municipality, etc in the US to install this stuff would be very hard - especially since not everyone is a techie. Even if Congress were to mandate it, it would still take a long time to see it deployed.
These things are clearly future possibilities. They are not present options. There's a huge difference. It's fact versus fiction at this point. I think the way that this is presented makes it seem like you have a choice between these two, and that they are competing. This is not an either/or kind of thing. You could put the intelligent car technology in any vehicle - hybrid or not.
Sorry for being a troll. Seems like someone should point this out.
I'm all for more intelligence being used by regular people.
As for the second article, the notion of cars talking to eachother and the roads is great. That's not the world we live in yet though. This requires auto-makers to start adding this to their cars, as well as massive expensive modifications to the road system. Convincing every state, county, municipality, etc in the US to install this stuff would be very hard - especially since not everyone is a techie. Even if Congress were to mandate it, it would still take a long time to see it deployed.
These things are clearly future possibilities. They are not present options. There's a huge difference. It's fact versus fiction at this point. I think the way that this is presented makes it seem like you have a choice between these two, and that they are competing. This is not an either/or kind of thing. You could put the intelligent car technology in any vehicle - hybrid or not.
Sorry for being a troll. Seems like someone should point this out.
I'm all for more intelligence being used by regular people.
