I was ready to write that I hadn't been to this blog for almost a month but, looking it up just now I see that it's been four days more than two months. A very busy couple of months, I'll tell you. And some day, I hope to share my experiences during those months with the reader. Something else that I hope to do sooner, rather than later, is to finish the series I had been working on in late August, titled Me and Religion. All that really remains to finish that piece are a few examples of specific praying, examined in order to learn what might go into prayers that bring positive results. Or seem to. Right now though, I am much more interested in another subject. One which was in the news a week-or-so ago. Google revealed that in recent months they have been testing, on bay area highways and byways, autonomous automobiles partly directed by their google earth program. So far, they've racked up more than a hundred thousand miles without negative incident.
I've been a fan of the idea of cars that drive themselves since my daughter (then about 8 years old) read to me about them from one of her Oz Books forty-some years ago. I have to admit that before then, I had never imagined such a possibility. But since, I've kept my eyes open for techno developments that seemed to contribute some of the parts(systems,really)needed to develope and produce such vehicles, like cruise control, global positioning satellite systems and automatic paralell parking programs. That last one really got my attention! Considering what must be involved for a car to parellel park itself, I figured we were maybe only a decade away from the availability of totally autonomous automobiles. And, as this is written, the annual 1000-mile, cross-country, autonomous automobiles race has been run three times. I think this year's winner was a car built by the Stanford university team.
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