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Looneybomber
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My progression of thoughts while watching this video.
1) Oh this would be the perfect car for women.
2) I'd say yes if my future wife wanted one of these.
3) Now you can drive drunk on highways instead of back roads.

http://youtu.be/aHmvrX5a0Ec

http://www.geek.com/news/michael-schuma ... s-1579637/


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This has I, Robot, written all over it to me. No thanks. I'll take stupid cars that do what I tell them and wreck into s***.

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Looks like Ford, GM, and even Nissan have have jumped on this bandwagon.
Nissan News Releases Nov. 24, 2013
Nissan Carries Out First Public Road Test of Autonomous Drive on Expressways in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan Motor Corporation has carried out the first public road test of Autonomous Drive on a Japanese highway. A Nissan LEAF electric vehicle equipped with the revolutionary technology took to the Sagami Expressway in Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, with the prefecture’s Governor, Yuji Kuroiwa, and Nissan Vice Chairman Toshiyuki Shiga, on board. The vehicle operated fully automatically on the highway. Journalists witnessed the tests and later had the opportunity to experience the car on the highway themselves.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUgoIB_r0T0[/youtube]

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numbnuts240
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i want a jonny cab

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Lmfao, I forgot about that!


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