On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:41 PM [GMT+1=CET], roger_millin <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > Adrian said: > >> Not guilty, m'lud. >> >> Look at the subject line for this thread. > > No, 'fraid not, I've so few years left in my life. >> >> However, I agree that driverless vehicles will require some form of >> computerised routing. But that wouldn't have to be satnav. It could >> be an electronic map stored on board. > > Unless the mapping was of the accuracy of an American cruise missile > I can't see how that would work. And I'm not sure that their cruise > missiles don't use the American military standard of satellite GPS > for precision location on the super map.
I read somewhere that about 30% of the cruise missiles used during the invasion of Iraq never got anywhere near their intended targets. If we're going to have cruise missile accuracy for driverless motorcars, I hope we get cruise missiles which live up to the manufacturer's inflated claims first. -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> Every establishment needs an opposition.
