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

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Tue Jan 18 12:15:53 EST 2011


Eww, who knows how old that coffee is?!

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On Jan 18, 2011 12:14 PM, "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> It pulls into the closest 24 hour McDonalds and orders coffee!
>
> On 1/18/11, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Preston Boyington
>>> <preston.lists at gmail.com <mailto:preston.lists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> <snipped>
>>> "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..."
>>>
>>>
>>> "In other news, DHS is reporting that transport computer systems are
>>> still down across the nation as the 'drive-by sql-injection attacks'
>>> continued after the link between Microsoft, Oracle and the nations
>>> interstate road driving software was revealed to have a security flaw.
>>> The Linux Foundation, adamantly denying any involvement in the current
>>> attacks, was warning of poor design during the bidding phase of the
>>> project and is now suing the Federal government for locking them out of
>>> the bidding claiming 'unfair regulations that appeared at the last
>>> minute prevent them from qualifying for submission'.
>>>
>>> Neither Microsoft nor Oracle had a comment prepared as their email was
>>> down as well."
>>
>> I did think that the sensor streams to detect road paint and road edges
>> in cars was an interesting idea (another article I read somewhere).
>> Makes me wonder if it detects you sleepily drifting between the lanes if
>> it'll roll the windows down and turn the radio up.
>>
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