Or that, after you had a car accident, the person suing you would have
the computer chip memory from your GM car seized and read under
discovery to prove that you were going slightly over the speed limit
when his client ran the red light and you are therefore at fault.

--

Roger Long



"BF" wrote in message
...
Could you imagine in 1960, that every new car in the world would
have a half
dozen or more computers on board?


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:18:51 -0400, Larry wrote:

instantly
plotting all the navaids current positions, obstructions long
before the
bureaucracy could ever crank out a notice to mariners.

It's difficult to envision a time when all navaids have AIS
transponders installed, don't think it will ever happen except for
the
very biggest/most important. Look at how many unlighted navaids we
have now, which is very low tech/low expense by comparison.

If you have a good quality color radar with all the bells and
whistles, it is not that difficult to get the information you need.
My Furuno for instance has the ability to overlay the chart and
radar
image on top of each other, and keep it aligned with your heading.