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Rep. Bill Shuster travels to Pittsburgh International Airport in driverless car
WTAE ^ | September 4, 2013

Posted on 09/04/2013 1:10:10 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

PITTSBURGH —A Pennsylvania congressman traveled to Pittsburgh International Airport in a driverless car designed by Carnegie Mellon University.

Rep. Bill Shuster, a Republican from Altoona, made the 33-mile trip at about 11 a.m. Wednesday. Shuster is the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and he was accompanied by Barry Schoch, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

A Carnegie Mellon engineer was in the driver's seat as a safety precaution, but the Cadillac SXR was driven along local roads and highways by a computer system which uses inputs from radars, lidars and infrared cameras.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: automobiles; driverless; google; no; nwo; radiation; transhumamism
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To: PGR88

I just saw your #18, kind of mirror what I am saying in #19.


21 posted on 09/04/2013 1:34:52 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The perfect metaphor for our present federal government: guidance from afar, no vision of the path ahead, and no personal accountability.


22 posted on 09/04/2013 1:35:42 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Can’t wait until they use that at Nascar, Should be exciting——not.


23 posted on 09/04/2013 1:36:37 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Army Air Corps

“Great way for electronic jihadis to kill a lot of people.”

Or for the CIA to take out people like journalist Michael Hastings who was prepping an exposé on Obama and the sanitization of his passport records.


24 posted on 09/04/2013 1:39:03 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Maceman
I think the driver option will have been eliminated long before then.

Not a chance. There are plenty of us who's work involves driving on the highway to a location where we are not driving on roads.

25 posted on 09/04/2013 1:41:56 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Frapster

Alright! No more DUI checkpoints. party on!


26 posted on 09/04/2013 1:45:37 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Democrats + Unions + Corruption= Detroit.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

It would be also a handy way for the government to slowly section off no go zones, and the population eventually forgets those zones because there is no way to get to them on foot, unless you want to walk 100 miles or more.


27 posted on 09/04/2013 1:46:59 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

Like pieces of our country they sell off to pay debts or food generating areas so we don;t see what we are eating anymore (shades of soylent green)?


28 posted on 09/04/2013 1:52:43 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Jonty30
It would be also a handy way for the government to slowly section off no go zones, and the population eventually forgets those zones because there is no way to get to them on foot, unless you want to walk 100 miles or more.

Yeah, and if you've ever visited FR and been deemed a potential terrorist, they can program it to lock you in and haul you to the local FEMA camp. No muss, no fuss.
29 posted on 09/04/2013 1:55:30 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: Resolute Conservative
The down side I see to this is that over half of our population is too stupid to make the jump to the “panacea futuristic” world we sometimes see on tv where every one is released from manual labor to pursue higher callings and the world is all good. That leaves technology taking the jobs away from people who will never rise above the labor type jobs (some may not want to ex: real cowboys) and thus causing even more disparity in the classes. Will that tipping point come and cause those to get on board, get weeded out, or rebel? I am thinking #3.

Great minds think alike. Yes, I think it will be some version of what you say. I don't see the "rebel" option though (not very soon anyway). Americans are getting too soft for that, and the checks (even if devalued) will keep coming from Uncle Sam. Technological and productivity advancement will be what saves the high debt, money-printing, low-labor participation welfare state from collapse.

30 posted on 09/04/2013 2:21:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Will he file a bill calling for RWI penalties?


31 posted on 09/04/2013 2:22:23 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The situation on a typical highway is extremely complex. Trusting peoples’ lives to a computer program is a very very dumb enterprise.

“Oh there will be precautions. redundant systems. fail safe. blah blah blah”

You’ll have to pry my steering wheel out of my cold dead hands.


32 posted on 09/04/2013 2:37:10 PM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The sequester? :)


33 posted on 09/04/2013 2:45:24 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

I’m on the same plan. Finishing up restore of 67 Camaro and 57 bel Air. Infinitely repairable. Still need a 53 Chevy pickup, then I’m set.


34 posted on 09/04/2013 6:46:00 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL!


35 posted on 09/04/2013 7:44:59 PM PDT by floralamiss
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