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"I operate by a code that makes me responsible for what I do, makes me definitely, directly, genuinely responsible. I am precisely the kind of person I made myself out to be."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Controlway | ||
| An automated highway system that takes full operational control of vehicles traveling upon it. |
| The car slid up the ramp, waited until the traffic control signaled a predicted break in traffic, then joined the high-speed northbound stream. Mary Risling settled back for a little nap...
She woke just before the signal from the car which would have called her... She signaled the traffic control ahead; it cut her out of the stream of vehicles and reduced the speed of her car, then rang the alarm which notified her to resume local control. Before doing so she fumbled in the storage compartment on the instrument board and fumbled, apparently purposelessly. She followed the side road for sev- eral miles at a speed high even for a Camden speedster, turned into a narrow country road which ran down near the lake shore, and stopped. She waited, lights out, sideport open. To the south the ubiquitous glow of sprawling Chicago made a false aurora. Behind her was the muted whine of the controlway. |
| Technovelgy from Methuselah's Children,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1941 Additional resources -
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