Compared to other " visions of the future ," Bel Geddes ' was rather achievable — the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which General Motors built a working prototype by 1960.

Congress legislated in ISTEA that “ the Secretary of Transportation shall develop an automated highway and vehicle prototype from which future fully automated intelligent vehicle-highway systems can be developed.

The goal of this program is to have the first fully automated highway roadway or an automated test track in operation by 1997.

Other potential benefits include improved air quality ( as a result of more-efficient traffic flows ), increased fuel economy, and spin-off technologies generated during research and development related to automated highway systems.

The automated highway system is a proposal for one such system, where cars organise themselves into platoons of eight to twenty-five.

An automated highway system ( AHS ) or Smart Road is a proposed intelligent transportation system technology designed to provide for driverless cars on specific rights-of-way.

prototype automated highway system, was tested in San Diego County, California in 1997 along Interstate 15.

Instead of the traditional solution of making the " pipe " large enough to accommodate the total demand for peak-hour vehicle travel ( a supply-side solution ), either by widening roadways or increasing " flow pressure " via automated highway systems, Downs advocates greater use of road pricing to reduce congestion ( a demand-side solution, effectively rationing demand ), in turn plowing the revenues generated therefrom into public transportation projects.

An automated highway system would connect the town with the outside world.

The first fully automated toll highway in the world, Ontario Highway 407, opened in Canada on 7 June, 1997.

A good amount of future and near future technology was featured throughout the series, including automated highway systems and A. I.

In 1999, the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biomedical Informatics deployed the first automated bioterrorism detection system, called RODS ( Real-Time Outbreak Disease Surveillance ).

Appointment CRM is a relatively new CRM platform category in which an automated system is used to offer a suite of suitable appointment times to a customer via e-mail or through a web site.

Cook automated teller machines often fail to fully disclose the fact that the Cooks are not part of the New Zealand banking system, thus legally requiring banks to charge the same fees for withdrawing or transferring money as if the person was in Australia or the EU.

Furthermore, by breaking the system up into smaller components, the complexity of individual components is reduced, opening up the possibility of using techniques such as automated theorem proving to prove the correctness of crucial software subsystems.

* Cyclops ( computer system ), an automated line-calling system in tennis

The APT package management system, repositories with large numbers of packages, and strict policies regarding packages, promote high quality releases, easy upgrades between releases, and automated installation and removal of packages.

The Docklands Light Railway ( the DLR ) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.

An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest.

The Reserve Banks ' retail services include distributing currency and coin, collecting checks, and electronically transferring funds through the automated clearinghouse system.

* James Martin's version of Information Engineering systems development methodology was automated to allow the input of the results of system analysis and design in the form of data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, entity life history diagrams etc.

In a slightly more complex system, it is automated with a delivery pump, a timer and irrigation tubing to deliver nutrient solution with a delivery frequency that is governed by the key parameters of plant size, plant growing stage, climate, substrate, and substrate conductivity, pH, and water content.

For this reason, the semiconductor fabrication facilities are highly automated, and may feature negative pressure gas bottles safe delivery system ( SDS ).

In 1956 he worked for General Electric on ERMA, a computer system that introduced the use of the magnetically-encoded fonts imprinted on the bottom border of checks, allowing automated check processing via Magnetic Ink Character Recognition ( MICR ).

highly developed, completely automated and efficient system, mainly buried cables

The macro virus has also been known to be used as a way of installing software on a system without the users consent as it can be used to look up software and web pages on the internet, go through with downloading and installing the software through the use of automated key-presses etc., however this is uncommon as it is usually un-fruitful for the virus coder since the installed software is usually noticed and uninstalled by the user.

In the mid-1990s, an automated exchange system based on an E-10A

Application areas include system identification and control ( vehicle control, process control, natural resources management ), quantum chemistry, game-playing and decision making ( backgammon, chess, poker ), pattern recognition ( radar systems, face identification, object recognition and more ), sequence recognition ( gesture, speech, handwritten text recognition ), medical diagnosis, financial applications ( automated trading systems ), data mining ( or knowledge discovery in databases, " KDD "), visualization and e-mail spam filtering.

OS / 2 is still used to control the SkyTrain automated light rail system in Vancouver, Canada.

Inevitably, the onset of the computer-moderated PBM game ( primarily the Legends game system ) meant that the human moderated games became " boutique " games with little chance of matching the gross revenues that larger, automated games could produce ..

Starting from 1952, works were held in the Moscow-based Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering ( headed by Sergei Lebedev ) on automated missile defense system which used a " computer network " which calculated radar data on test missiles through central machine called M-40 and was interchanging information with smaller remote terminals about 100 — 200 kilometers distant.

None of the crew's attempts at contacting the Ringworld succeed, and their ship is disabled by its automated meteor defense system.

Lausanne is the only city with a metro system ( Lausanne Metro ), which includes two lines, the first being a light metro, while the other being a fully automated metro opened in 2008.

The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment ( SAGE ) was the Cold War operator environment created for the automated air defense ( AD ) of North American and by extension, the name of the associated network of radars, computer systems, and aircraft command and control equipment (" SAGE Defense System ") to replace the United States Air Force " manual air defense system " ( Col John Morton ).

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

One of the key challenges in glass cockpits is to balance how much control is automated and how much the pilot should do manually.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

Automated theorem proving ( also known as ATP or automated deduction ) is the proving of mathematical theorems by a computer program.

It is currently the most well-developed subfield of automated reasoning.

* Metamath-a language for developing strictly formalized mathematical definitions and proofs accompanied by a proof checker for this language and a growing database of thousands of proved theorems ; while the Metamath language is not accompanied with an automated theorem prover, it can be regarded as important because the formal language behind it allows development of such a software ; as of March, 2012, there is no " widely " known such software, so it is not a subject of " automated theorem proving " ( it can become such a subject ), but it is a proof assistant.

The lack of moving parts makes them appropriate for long term use in exposed automated weather stations and weather buoys where the accuracy and reliability of traditional cup-and-vane anemometers is adversely affected by salty air or large amounts of dust.

The fundamental question underlying all computing is " What can be ( efficiently ) automated?

The term theoretical chemistry may be defined as a mathematical description of chemistry, whereas computational chemistry is usually used when a mathematical method is sufficiently well developed that it can be automated for implementation on a computer.

It is unlikely that this would all be contained within a single monolithic structure, but would rather be a group of cooperating machines or an automated factory that is capable of manufacturing all of the machines that make it up.

Computer vision covers the core technology of automated image analysis which is used in many fields.

DSE is facilitated by computer matching techniques which can be automated, such as propensity score matching.

An automated process is used to schedule and confirm the appointment, and place it on the appropriate person's calendar.