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Satnav works very well. Put in a precise address e.g. Sonehenge, or Gunter's Fish Shop, Grimsby, or the Magic Roundabout, Swindon, and the device gives you a precise series of directions to arrive there, from wherever you are.
But suppose you are in a precise place, and have a "wherever" destination?
The machine will kind of do the initial stages of this - if you enter "coffee shop" it will show you a selection of different ones on the map. But to start the navigation process you have to discard all but one options.
Proposed is a protocol to define a generic class or spread of potential destinations, and the machine directs you to the nearest or the bet according to pre-defined criteria. If you take a wrong turning, or if there is a crash and a tailback, the machine doesn't re-route you to the same initially chosen destination but silently calculates the shortest or quickest rout to the current nearest or best.
For example, I want to go to the coast. I enter "the coast" and the machine starts running, taking me to the nearest coast. Or I enter "international border crossing post" and it doesn't ask me which one I want, it just takes me to the nearest.
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Category science general sleep? |
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"I want to wake up at the coast"? |
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“I want to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep”
—Frank Sinatra, 1978 |
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… though it was originally sung by Liza Minelli in the 1977 movie “New York, New York” … |
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Technically a city does not sleep because it isn't alive or awake. Individual organisms within it may be asleep or awake at different times; it is likely that most human habitations include nocturnal beings from cats down to bedbugs and so they (meaning their inhabitants) don't sleep. The song might be more accurately re-phrased "I want to wake up in a city, a significant proportion of whose human inhabitants are awake at any arbitrarily chosen time of the day or night". A few extra bars of music could easily enough be composed to fit these extended lyrics. |
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Edit: there is an implication that they are not only awake, but active. Perhaps even economically active. Add that qualification in. |
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Only just seen the category error, fixed now. Not sure how that happened. At least it wasn't a few higher on the list. |
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I thought the sleep category was a good choice for people with self driving cars. Tell it "take me someplace and wake me when we get there." |
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Ding! We're here! Time elapsed 0:00. |
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