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From: tomk@seer.gentoo.com (Tom Kunich)
Subject: Re: MIT Insect Robots
Message-ID: <1992Jun18.173307.15272@seer.gentoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 17:33:07 GMT
References: <1992Jun12.091444.21213@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Jun15.175208.12376@seer.gentoo.com> <GERRY.92Jun16095640@onion.cmu.edu>
Organization: Brad Lanam,  Walnut Creek, CA
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In article <GERRY.92Jun16095640@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
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>IMHO, electric cars will be accepted once the existing, larger,
>heavier vehicles are no longer on the same roads.

I think that this is essentially what I said -- that in order for
electric cars to be acceptable we will have to lower our expectations
of automobiles. 
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>Robots should be used where it is too expensive, or dangerous for
>humans: outer space, coal mines, hazardous waste cleanup, nuke plants,

There will always be a market for special useage. This isn't the point.
The point is _general_ useage. And this isn't apparently demonstrably
desireable at the moment. Perhaps never.

