Anyone that doesn't want to learn to drive has to pay for their own taxi. I will not give you a ride because you are too lazy to learn an essential skill. That is magnitudes worse than being too lazy to learn to drive a standard transmission. Also an essential skill in my book as well as being able to change a flat tire. Essential.
Screw robot cars, I want robotic, non-driving teenagers. Assemble my sandwich, Tyler (or Taylor or Trevor or Skylar.)
iRobot. I'm gonna be Will Smith still rocking a combustible engine while the rest of the world gets ferried about in their robot cars.
Not just any dino burner, but real deal MV Agusta F4.
JG Pasterjak wrote:Jerry From LA wrote:http://instantrimshot.com Jerry, do you come here right from the opec mic nights, or do you posts on your phone while waiting forever because you got hosed in the order lottery?M030 wrote: Ferdinand is spinning in his graveNo. Wankel is spinning in his grave.
You're right. However, Ferdinand Porsche is still horizontally opposed.
berkeley all this autonomous car bullE36 M3. I will keep driving until I cant do it anymore.
octavious wrote: iRobot. I'm gonna be Will Smith still rocking a combustible engine while the rest of the world gets ferried about in their robot cars.
I LOVE that scene where the chick asks him 'Does this thing run on gas? You know that stuff burns, right?' 
Engineers gonna' engineer. They can't stop themselves.
It just seems like there are so many different kind of Porsche owners/drivers, that we need different kinds of Porsches.
But I can't afford to mess with any of them!
In reply to Appleseed:
I just refer to them as Drones anyways.....well, the ones I see at the same fast food window for over 3 years at least.
Appleseed wrote: Not just any dino burner, but real deal MV Agusta F4.
And people wonder why I want an MV. I will own one, and I'll probably do something stupid like a fly and ride to the leftist coast to get one. I'm lusting over a low mileage F4 312R......so I can be a poor Bruce Wayne.
Mongo will terrify all on the roads of the future
In reply to aussiesmg:
Will it have a crane with a giant flail on the roof?
Automated cars will only work if there are no non-automated (unpredictable) cars on the same roads. If they are going to do this, they need to take the human element out.
It's not hard to imagine a world where you CAN'T drive yourself. They'll be doing this for your own safety---- and the safety of the children. They will compile statistics of how much safer automation is.... how much more efficient. Really, you'd be very irresponsible if you drove yourself.....it will be like smoking in a car full of children with the windows up.
Don't worry though.....they will probably have "old car days" where you can have the automated tow truck take your horribly irresponsible "manual" car to a parking lot, where you can sit in a lawn chair next to your car and commiserate with others about how good the good ole days were.
Get off my lawn! Screw it.....I'm digging a hole in the side of a mountain and living off the grid!
NOHOME wrote: I was talking about this with one of the programer wonks at work, and he assured me that the worst computer on the planet, even when infected with a virus, could do a better job of driving than the average human. The caveat is that the human needs to be removed from the equation before the computer can do its job. Driving is easy, don't hit E36 M3. Stay in your designated 3D coordinate. A computer can do that as long as non-predictable humans are not driving on their roads. Myself, I am looking forward to the day that the stoplight/4way stop/roundabout gets replaced with a multiplexed intersection. Picture two steams of traffic headed towards each other at an intersection and never having to slow down. Same with lane merges, both streams adjust speed to maintain posted limits. Its certainly not rocket surgery. Just replace the concept of a data byte with "CAR" and treat it accordingly. The good news is that with such controls, speed limits could go way up with fewer accidents. It is the way of the future.
Yeah, because my network NEVER has data stream collisions or lost packets. 
I'm surprised by how much support there is for automated driving on this site. Maybe its because I don't commute through a traffic jam everyday. Just take all the people who support automated transportation, put them on a bus and presto, no more traffic jam. In reality though I don't think this will ever exist beyond possible freeway use where unforseeable circumstances can be limited. Of course if they build a system and name it SKYNET it will soon figure out humans are the problem and erradicate us all.
D2W wrote: < Just take all the people who support automated transportation, put them on a bus and presto, no more traffic jam. In reality
THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There are a couple major social hurdles that are much greater than the technological hurdles.
One is liability. Who is responsible when your car causes an accident? You? The road? The automaker?
The second is the fact that sometimes when driving, the driver has two choose between two bad choices. Hit the toddler that stepped into the road or drive off the cliff? With autonomous cars, someone has to program that choice in ahead of time. Let that sink in.
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