Timothy C. May wrote:
At 4:46 PM 8/12/96, snow wrote:
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Gary Howland wrote:
Will old fashioned engines be outlawed? Will the "stun guns" be outlawed? Will susceptible electronic systems become mandatory? (and if so, why not just put a remote control switch in all cars?)
One word: Pacemakers.
Not just pacemakers, but also cars losing steering control (but not forward speed, obviously) and thus plow into crowds. And airbags that perhaps get triggered in all the ruckus, breaking the necks of infants (as has happened).
Think of the liablility issues! Deliberately causing a car to lose control. Mon Dieu!
Somehow I don't think they'll give a damn about killing passengers and/or pedestrians (after all, they'd shoot them if they were in range, wouldn't they?) Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06 ^S ^A^Aoft FAT filesytem is extremely robust, ^Mrarely suffering from^T^T