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"I was wholly addicted to watching Kojack, for as long as it was on television."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Inter-Vehicle Communication | ||
| The ability to talk car-to-car directly. |
| As the cab hummed above downtown New York another cab rose and zipped ahead of it, wig-wagging its side fins in a rocking motion.
"They are trying to contact us," the autonomic circuit of his own cab informed him. "Do you wish to respond?" "Let me talk to them," Barney said. A mike was presented to him. |
| From The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Doubleday in 1965 Additional resources -
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There have been a variety of different real-life approaches to creating something like this. Some involve visual feedback (check out the funky Drivemocion; others make use of short-range WiFi or other networking technology.
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