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from the control-your-own-vroom-vroom dept.
Visions of cars that drive themselves without emitting a bit of pollution while entertaining passengers with online movies and social media are what's taking center stage at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Japan, home to the world's top-selling automaker, has a younger generation disinterested in owning or driving cars. The show is about wooing them back. It's also about pushing an ambitious government-backed plan that paints Japan as a leader in automated driving technology.
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some automakers at the show are packing the technology into what looks more like a golf cart or scooter than a car, such as Honda Motor Co.'s cubicle-like Wander Stand and Wander Walker scooter.Instead of trying to venture on freeways and other public roads, these are designed for controlled environments, restricted to shuttling people to pre-determined destinations.
A prescient Soylentil observed here last year that one day soon driving your own car will be illegal. That might bear out.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Thursday October 29 2015, @05:48PM
That's always been my favorite song for driving fast.. (even when I was young with a red car)... There have been so many instances of synchronicity with it.. like last year when I was riding my motorcycle fast to it approaching a one lane bridge with Geddy blaring "at the one lane bridge, leave the giant stranded at the riverside.." so cool... :)
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