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| May 15th, 2016 at 9:17:51 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18264 |
I watch "Autoline" daily, and boy are they hype on autonomous cars. I watch it and shake my head at how much over-promising is going on. While I do not deny they are coming, I do foresee huge problems and disappointed consumers. I do not see 100% perfection in my lifetime, i.e., the no-steering wheel pod that rolls all over. The President is a fink. |
| May 15th, 2016 at 11:21:28 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 | My wife has a GPS, she would do that. I'd rather make a Mapquest printout, GPS is far too irritating. If you can't see because of fog or other conditions, you shouldn't be driving anyway. Did she think GPS could see the road for her? If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 15th, 2016 at 12:11:02 PM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | When it comes to software think: Chernobyl, Fukishita, three mile island, etc. Think what the sailors aboard a ship in the Falkland War felt when two planes attacked and the computer put their only gun into self test mode. Autonomous? Heck, we already have autonomous drivers: road hypnosis, radio, cell phones, broad beside them, broad they are en route to, gas station, hamburger joint, the screaming kids in the back seat.... a miracle anyone looks at the road now. |
| May 15th, 2016 at 1:00:13 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18829 |
Yes, my future autonomous car may drive me into a lake eventually, but at least it won't be smoking, texting, eating a burger and swatting at the rowdy kids in the back of the car the entire drive. (well, one hopes not anyway) You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 15th, 2016 at 1:15:38 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
A woman actually ran into me while she was completely twisted around in her seat swatting her kids. I saw it coming and couldn't get out of the way. She was far more concerned about what her husband would say than she was about damaging my car or the potential for danger she put her kids in by taking her eyes off the road for 10 seconds. Idiot. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 15th, 2016 at 1:33:42 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11826 | I was driving once and thought GPS found a short cut for me I'm thinking great till I saw a sign "Not a Through Road. GPS wrong" I guess so many people tried this they put up a sign. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| May 15th, 2016 at 1:47:52 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12584 | Wasn't there an episode of The Office where Michael Scott drove into a lake cause he was following the GPS instructions? “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| May 15th, 2016 at 4:36:05 PM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/911-Commission-Member-6-Saudi-Officials-Supported-Terror-Attack.html Lehman who was on the 911 commission is spilling some of the beans. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| May 15th, 2016 at 5:57:52 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18829 | Idiots complain about weather lady's dress. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/meterorlogist-forced-put-sweater-live-tv-article-1.2637891 It's not enough to glue me to the set for an entire weather report. Maybe I lived in Vegas too long and am jaded. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 15th, 2016 at 8:54:17 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18829 |
While they kill random people, specific targeting of individuals seems like an even more terrible PR move. I'm really beginning to believe someone might nuke the general area eventually like you would a giant roach nest. At some point people might start looking at the possibility and react much like they did at the killing of Kaddafi. There will be no serious investigation of whether it was justified or legal or a war crime because not enough people will care enough. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/16/al-qaeda-magazine-calls-for-targeting-american-business-leaders.html You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |