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It was a splendid ide
that starts, stops and si
with no help from the dj
1961. It worked.
But the engineering >
high, and the pouring
apace, the old way. A f
was torn up.
The electronic highu
shelf with other flashe
feasible and likely to
futuristic playground,
possibility like comets
?Cars that fly or float <
?Helicopters in every
filling the skies;
?Endless moving be
about the city.
AT ONE TIME m;
everyday solutions to f]
and comparable probl
These were the drea
had shown the force c
entering bloom, when
seem possible, when th
shifted to energy crisis
age of limits.
But they cost too m
weren't really what p<
THE AUTOMATIC c
starting and stopping <
1961 on a quarter-mi
Princeton, N.J. The de
work that paralleled t
wav system. Why not
Contract gi
Four USC engin
received a one year,
tract from the U.S. Na
an innovative compu
i_ iji i _
wnicn wouiu neip mane
qualified to fly.
Robert Pettus, M.N. ]
Stephens, and R.D.
direct their efforts to
simulators ? devices
put pilots through trai
ground.
"Basically what we
problem with time," 1
"A modern aircraft h
100 instruments which,
is thrown into a nos
example, all have
simultaneously. It's ge
simulator cnmnnter r
that fast enough," he
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a: a fully automatic superhighw
teers each car at 100 miles an he
river. A full scale model was built
nas still primitive, the cost seem
of interstate highways proceed
ew years ago the original test tre
ray was put back on the laborat<
s of inspiration that once appeal
transform society overnight intc
They soared into the realm
, then faded from view:
or glide on a cushion of air;
garage, or on everyone's back, ;
Its for sidewalks, whisking pec
any people thought commonpls
1st tires, traffic jams, worn-out sh
ems would be available.
ms at mid-century, when world \
?f technology, when electronics ^
i pconnmir arowth made anvth
le American perspective had not
, future shock, small is beautiful i
uch, or proved too complicated,
eople wanted after all.
ars, guided by signals from the ro
i safe distance apart, were teste*
le track outside the RCA labs
monstration followed seven yeari
he beginning of the interstate hi
make the whole thing automat
?News
anted assignments withi
"We'll then dei
eers have computer that will
$96,470 con- other machines u]
vy to design formation in each c
iter system said.
; pilots more Pettus said it u
years or so," befo
Huhns, L.M. system is put intc
Bonnel will The system, when
iward flight be used at the
designed to Equipment Cente
ning on ihe Fla., according to
> have is a ApDOilll
Pettus said. * m
as probably rn^i
if the plane Hi 11
e dive, for George D. Hain
to react been appointed to
itting so one Robinson Chair in
:an t do all school of Law. Th<
said. was made this wee
vill attempt Day, dean of the 1
computer The Robinson Ch
^ Monday
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n drea
Some engineers pre
each car route-pr
ay automatically pullec
>ur its power from the
in
The government i
things. A good steei
[?~ work continues on I
controls, says Lyle S
:clc at the Federal Hig
people seem content
would you start with
% ones and build them
rea
} ? If the automatic
?* automatic sidewalk,
every city a network
here and there.
suid THE MOVING sid
airports and shoppii
>ple speed.
"You used to read
Henderson, a staff sc
ice organization that ha:
oes know anyone who's e
would be spectaculai
VAT
vas But if you increase
ing safely? And in a do^
yet ween starting and s
and
"OUR CITIES arei
or but streets," says H
these pedestrian co
mezzanine level. It
Then there was th
in when many people
g 0f cars, a notion share
flh_ bore their name: Sis
"We all believed
i
uriejs?
n the aircraft, honor of
sign a master distinguis
control all the of the &
pdating the in- tributions
>f them," Pettus used to
standing
'ill take "three The ch,
re the proposed David H
> practical use. May.
nnm nlatoH uri u Haimb
V^VlliptV I.V/U , VYUi
Navy Training from N<
r in Orlando, School o
Pettus. Yale Un
has also
tment ?' th?
ternatio
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30 and the
ibaugh Jr. has Haimb
i th David W. of ^aw >
Law at the USC JP<?
; announcement lnt?rn?.'
k by Richard E. ?nd re.g"
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idicted as much within 15 ye
ogrammed before a jouri
I off at the right exit. The car1
road.
8 still paying for research
ring system has been develc
braking, merging and lane <
axton, chief of systems and te
hway Administration. But, 1
t with the roads we have, ar
i the automatic one? Tear up
i anew?
road seems out, what at
once thought an imminent poi
of huge rubber bands scootin
lewalks today are largely coi
ig centers, most of them at
a lot of wild speculation," sa
ientist at SRI International, a i
s studied people movers. "Bi
ver studied the business who tl
r, unless you could get the sp
the speed, how do people get o
wntown setting what about si
topping points?
n't built to make it easy to use
enderson. "The best scheme
nveyors from building to bu
isn't a booming business."
le grand helicopter vision of
thought choppers would soor
d by early pioneers whose cc
mley Hiller, Igor Sikorsky, La
that," Hiller says. "But it
David W. Robinson, a
>hed attorney and leader
Duth Carolina Bar. Conj
to the chair fund are
attract and retain out
scholars.
air was formerly held by
. Means, who retired in
augh holds a J.D. degree
arthwestern University
f Law and a J.S.D. from
iversity Law School. He
completed advanced work
Hague Academy of Innal
Law, Georgetown
ty, New York University,
University of Miami.
augh came to USC School
n 1963. His teaching sub:lude
Constitutional Law,
-inrinl Inu/ intprnntinnnl
.1V1IU1 ?M M | vv* Vkwaawia
onal organizations and the
nass communications. He
tten extensively of these
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