Now one of the books that will be assigned for the class is by Michael Pollan called, In Defense of Food, and he spends some time in that book discussing and he has a very interesting take on it.
With an assignedtime and path, these lightweight, self-guided cars would proceed steadily through crowded intersections without all the stop-and-go that chokes roadways and saps fuel efficiency.
However, inside these numbers again we have a much higher value assigned to the time of those business people making the journey than we do to the tourists or day-trippers in the cheap seats.
As Davidson's partner Mark Sauter points out, APB Online (derived from the classic police acronym "all-points bulletin") may be the world's only news organization with a reporter assigned full-time to the missing persons beat.