Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> Pay close attention to the car commercials on TV these days. Already
> I've seen an Acura and an Audi commercial involving a bunch of cars
> that drive around all by themselves. In the Acura commercial, the cars
> drive around the showroom, but quickly return to their places when the
> sales manager comes back into the showroom to retreive something he
> forgot totake with him; in the Audi commercial, the cars leave their
> owners' driveways and "play" together all night long, returning home
> at sunrise just as their owners are stepping out of the house to go to
> work.
>
> Is this just a case of one advertising agency copy-catting another,
> kinda like how Hollywood somehow comes out with TWO
> asteroid-striked-the-earth movies ("Armageddon" and "Deep Impact") at
> about the same time? Or is there a concerted effort on the part of the
> automobile industry to get the public used to the idea of self-driving
> cars prior to their commercial introduction?
> --
> My driving videos:
> http://www.geocities.com/slothkills/videos.html

It's another scam to raise the cost of cars - prolly to somewhere like
$100,000. Americans will be told it's all about saving lives but that
can be accomplished by lowering speed limits and throwing bad drivers
in prison. Everything in america is a lie, a scam, or a conspiracy.