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This vision from around the technological bend has, in various forms, preoccupied the automotive 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...
...Someday, say the futurists, our streets will be filled with computer-controlled cars so "smart" they will make the prototype I'm riding in look like a brain-damaged Model T. These high-IQ roadsters will, perhaps within our lifetime, speed down smart highways under their own command, turning drivers into passengers, saving billions of dollars and transforming commuters' lives in the process...
Hoffer said he envisions that someday student groups will organize meeting on the CHATeau, among other things...
...Susan M. Heffernan, a 34-year-old New York City nurse. "It is an atrocity that an annual salary of $71,250 for an R.N. with 20 years' experience is not considered cost efficient," she wrote. "To hospital administrators who want to replace R.N.s with unlicensed workers, I say, 'Someday you will be in the hospital! And then there won't be any time to rethink your decision...
...home state. After her death at age nine in 1976, he started the Valerie Fund, a money-raising endeavor that has spawned New Jersey's largest network of pediatric- oncology centers. "We wish we didn't have to grow, but unfortunately the disease runs rampant," he says. "We hope someday to go out of business...