[Sosfbay-discuss] A much more fuel efficient car....

[Andrea Dorey]

It almost doesn't surprise me that an e-car was the first pedestrian  
killer because these little buggers have been fast from their inception!
Your beef (so to speak) however, is with cars in general, and I  
totally agree that vehicles are lethal.

Do we take them off the roads?  I don't know.  Maybe we should until  
we have a reliable robot-drive system that overrides crazy, drunk,  
incompetent drivers?  I could Grok that one, too!

In fact, we have something like that being worked on now, a TV show  
that I plan to do in the very near future.
Andrea

On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Tian Harter wrote:

> It seems cosmicly significant that Bliss was done in by #43.
> Almost as if Democracy has a funny way of sending messages....
>
>
> Gerry Gras wrote:
>
>> In 1899, the first automobile fatality in the U.S involved an
>>
>> electic cab.
>>     http://www.citystreets.org/plaque.html
>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bliss_% 
>> 28road_accident_victim%29
>>
>> (The text says the first pedestrian, the plaque
>> says first recorded motor vehicle fatality,
>> I believe both statements are true.)
>>
>> NOTE: I do NOT mean to imply that electric cars are more
>> dangerous.  I believe that this fact just implies that there
>> were more electric vehicles than other large vehicles at
>> that time.
>>
>> NOTE: the total number of car deaths in the U.S. is either
>> 2.1 or 3.1 million, while the total number of Americans
>> killed in war (from the Revolution to the Iraq War) is
>> around 1.1 million.
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>
>
>
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