Re: Does the world need 5G? Driverless cars, IoT, future devices will demand it - Feature - TechRepublic

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Driving may well be something handled better by a robot only because a
a several kilo doodad only a few feet from another several kilo doodad
isn't something humans are all that good at doing.
(Source-News: where collisions are regularly reported)

I'm wondering how come hovercrafts with diesel engines and some sort
of hovering robot driven  doodad isn't here already.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Prof David West <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Nick -- because we are so insistent about "engineering," our traffic
> systems, there is no option but to replace fallible, undisciplined, and
> unpredictable (hence beyond the capabilities of engineering) human
> beings with machine analogs - driverless cars!
>
> dave west
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>> Driverless cars (question mark)?
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>> Clark University
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Barry
>> MacKichan
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:02 AM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Does the world need 5G? Driverless cars, IoT, future
>> devices will demand it - Feature - TechRepublic
>>
>> Is this is a counter-example to Betteridge's Law (Any headline which ends
>> in a question mark can be answered by the word no)?
>>
>> —Barry
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 Dec 2014, at 16:40, Tom Johnson wrote:
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>> > http://www.techrepublic.com/article/does-the-world-really-need-5g/?tag
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