Why the crap not?

I've long wondered why companies have deigned to create self-driving cars, seeing as how the technology has been within our reach for a decade or more. Computer-controlled cars would begin the transition of the nation's freeways from dangerous funnels infested with adolescent maturity levels to a form of highly organized mass-transit.

Well, Volkswagen is on the ball with a truly 100% self driving Golf that it is using for testing at one of its laboratories.



The car uses a combination of radar sensors, IR, video and precise GPS locator technology to shoot around courses at breakneck speed.

On one hand I'm happy that the technology is being showcased, on the other, I'm afraid of what Uncle Sam would be capable of with a national ID card and completely regulated computerized personal transportation.

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