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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> The comparison of design and architecture with language may be useful, but 
> is metaphorical, not literal. And language only begins with grammar. It is 
> one thing to speak or write correctly, another to do so with meaning and 
> feeling. The Media Lab's car will need some rhetoric, some prosody, 
> perhaps even some poetry to become more than an academic exercise.

Smaller, smarter, non-polluting cars are a big step forward. Apparently, 
even MIT thinking is stuck in the old transportation corridors. The 
ultimate city people-mover system will use no roads, no parking spaces, no 
multi-story garages, all of which space has better uses.