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Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by jessriedel on Friday January 25, 2013 @03:20PM (#5117401)
A 100 mpg car is highly constrained by the laws of physics to be crappy, or at least extremely unappealing.

A much better goal, in terms of usefulness, challenge, and well-defined-ness, would be to develop a self-driving car. This probably could have been done 20 years ago if we had started a Manhattan-style project. But I guess we'll just have to wait for Google.

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Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by abstractbill on Friday January 25, 2013 @03:30PM (#5117464)
Actually many other car manufacturers are making (perhaps more incremental) steps towards that goal too: http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/19/mercedes-and-other-carm...
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Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch... by jessriedel on Friday January 25, 2013 @05:18PM (#5118032)
These incremental advances have been appearing for at least 20 years, and eventually we will have self-driving cars even without an organized effort (either by the government or a company like Google with massive resources). But that's a very slow option.
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