The latest issue of New Scientist has an article on automatic cars, which includes the following sentence...
"...[This] approach suffers from the problem that it is pretty much impossible to anticipate all possible scenarios - for example, an encounter with a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck into the road with a broom, as recorded by a Google car in 2014."
You couldn't make it up!
Reality is stranger than fiction...
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Re: Reality is stranger than fiction...
Add religion and royalty, and you have the ultimate Daily Express 'story'...StuartR wrote:... a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck into the road with a broom ...
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Re: Reality is stranger than fiction...
I must admit that I'd actually buy that morning edition just to read that story!John Gray wrote:Add religion and royalty, and you have the ultimate Daily Express 'story'...StuartR wrote:... a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck into the road with a broom ...
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Re: Reality is stranger than fiction...
They seem to publish a variant on that story every morning Rudi
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Re: Reality is stranger than fiction...
I feel sorry for the ducks in the UK. 
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Re: Reality is stranger than fiction...
Ah... 
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Re: Reality is stranger than fiction...
And sometimes it's frogs...StuartR wrote:Sometimes it's badgers...
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