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...industry for decades. The basic idea is always the same. Proponents imagine a morning someday in the next century when you and your smart car pull out of the garage, drive down local roads in the conventional manner and head for the "smartway." There you will merge into the auto lanes, activate your robo-driver and relax. The car will hurtle along at high speed--perhaps up to 140 m.p.h.--only a few feet from the cars in front and behind but protected by collision-avoidance radar and automatic brakes, with guidance coils on either side steering it down...
...industry has attracted numerous lawsuits around the country filed by customers who claim they have been ripped off. In a case that drew considerable public attention, an Alabama jury found Mercury Finance liable for fraud involving an auto-loan scheme that allegedly netted the firm hundreds of millions of dollars. The collection agencies that work hand in glove with the lenders have also been targeted for harassing or even threatening delinquents...
What happens when a deer jumps onto the smartway? What if a driver in the auto lane decides to step on the brakes? What if a computer crashes? Do all the cars follow suit? And then whom do you sue--the driver, the carmaker or the programmer? "With all that can go wrong," asked Chrysler chairman Robert Eaton in a speech in Dearborn, Michigan, last week, expressing some of the industry's concerns, "will we all spend the rest of our lives in court...
BORN: Oct. 3, 1944, Ashland EDUCATION: U of Alabama, B.S, 1965 FAMILY: Wife, Patsy Adams; four children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Auto dealer; trucking-company executive; farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Ashland city council, 1972-76, candidate for mayor, 1976 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 700, Ashland...
...eastern mountains, which were pro-Union during the Civil War, vote Republican, as does Louisville, which was an antislavery town. The population has grown only 30% in the past 50 years, and many residents are descendants of settlers and still make their living in the tobacco, coal, whiskey and auto industries. But Kentucky is best known for its Derby, and this year the hottest political horse race is the one for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat. His past two victories were both close...