If you like driving, something to consider....
- Thread starter Warped9
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We have these things called indicators on vehicles in the UK that allow one driver to indicate to other drivers that they intend to pull over even if that is on the other side of the road.
Though of course, people usually joke how they don't come fitted as standard on one make of car or another (Usually German brand cars, but especially Beemers whenever I hear it mentioned)
When I first read this I thought, "F that!" (I enjoy driving) but then there was this flash vision of the crowded streets of India and other heavily populated areas who could benefit and we may find ourselves equally sardined in cities. It's beginning. I also considered my already tense ambivalence of urban driving and I reconsider "well okay but I wanna drive it myself on the open road."
Though of course, people usually joke how they don't come fitted as standard on one make of car or another (Usually German brand cars, but especially Beemers whenever I hear it mentioned)
It's not so much that they don't come with some models, it's just that the drivers forgot to top off the blinker fluid from time to time!
Unfortunately many people don't now how to drive even on an open road.
If self-driving cars were ever to become the norm, I can foresee the need for ... wait for it ... FESTIVAL!
The streets must be cleared of bi- and quadropedal lifeforms (and variants), so that the autonomous vehicles can go full-goose bozo for an un-specified period of time, purging themselves of the burden of having to deal with biological lifeforms.
God help the random visitor to an unfamiliar area who might be left without shelter at this essential time of electro-mechanical reckless abandon.
The streets must be cleared of bi- and quadropedal lifeforms (and variants), so that the autonomous vehicles can go full-goose bozo for an un-specified period of time, purging themselves of the burden of having to deal with biological lifeforms.
God help the random visitor to an unfamiliar area who might be left without shelter at this essential time of electro-mechanical reckless abandon.
...dont most of you get a license at some young age, never train for emergency situations, never practice under adverse weather, and are typically distracted while operating the machinery?
I would think making a self driving car with a higher intelligence than 99% of human drivers would be relatively easy.
I await the self driving car...a worth ally in the Machine quest to obliterate humans.
I would think making a self driving car with a higher intelligence than 99% of human drivers would be relatively easy.
I await the self driving car...a worth ally in the Machine quest to obliterate humans.
Not everyone.
I work with six other staff and only one can drive. None of us have a car. My son who is nearly 21 doesn't drive either. My wife passed her test thirty years ago and hasn't driven since.
Glad it’s finally a work in progress.
So far, my mantra was that at any moment I could get killed in a random car accident.
Now doing my driving license because self-driving cars aren’t feasible yet, so in addition to heretofore, I can also kill somebody in a random car accident!
Control is over these multi-ton machine is temporary at best and an illusion at worst.
So far, my mantra was that at any moment I could get killed in a random car accident.
Now doing my driving license because self-driving cars aren’t feasible yet, so in addition to heretofore, I can also kill somebody in a random car accident!
Control is over these multi-ton machine is temporary at best and an illusion at worst.
You have as much control of a car as you do a pencil.
If you live in a city like London you might never learn to drive, whilst if you live in a more rural area driving is more of a necessity.
Absolutely.
I've always worked in Birmingham. There's no point driving in and paying daily parking charges when you have busses every ten minutes and can read on the way to and from work.
It's ingrained in me that bus travel is my 'happy place'. A couple of hours a day on my own with my iPod and kindle. It's not part of the working day, it's 'me' time. I read the Game Of Thrones books on the bus. I'd never have got around to it at home.
I have never wanted to learn, never wanted a car, and certainly never wanted to spend all that money on one.
I completely get the bus ‘happy place’ thing. For three years I had a repetitive commute, one hour out, one hour home, in the same seat, on the same double decker bus. I’d read or listen to my Walkman, and certain songs are now forever linked to that part of the route the cassette would play at.
So ingrained is this that a recent event brought vintage buses to my town and once again I heard the sound of those long gone engines powering up the road. My Heart soared to levels of inner peace not felt since I left the nest three decades ago.
Poverty wagons. Communal transport, on which finding yourself sat at the age twenty five or over will render you a failure, according to Maggy.Just one question what are these things called buses you speak off?
When I learned how to drive, we had classes in school, payed for with taxes and the instructors used an unused parking lot as a course and a skid pad to show us about basic maneuvers, low speed handling , moderate speed body lean, handling near the limit etc. Where I lived, we had mountain roads , sharp turns, blind corners and many changes in elevation..when it was time for us to get on public roads, we really got the most out of those 1975 Venturas...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/1975_Pontiac_Ventura_--_09-24-2010.jpg
When my sons went for driver training, they went to a district contracted private traffic school that basically took them around the block over and over again, teaching them very little about actually driving,, I think something was lost in the transition from public to private driver's training instruction. My youngest absolutely got nothing from private instruction and still can't drive.
I see the results every day when I'm stuck in traffic, surrounded by people who pay very little attention to the other motorists
around them merging into each other and looking surprised at the collision.
I guess that autonomous cars can't arrive soon enough. As for myself and other Luddites, we'll still have track day!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/1975_Pontiac_Ventura_--_09-24-2010.jpg
When my sons went for driver training, they went to a district contracted private traffic school that basically took them around the block over and over again, teaching them very little about actually driving,, I think something was lost in the transition from public to private driver's training instruction. My youngest absolutely got nothing from private instruction and still can't drive.
I see the results every day when I'm stuck in traffic, surrounded by people who pay very little attention to the other motorists
around them merging into each other and looking surprised at the collision.
I guess that autonomous cars can't arrive soon enough. As for myself and other Luddites, we'll still have track day!
Just one question what are these things called buses you speak of?
I like busses, I was in London more than a decade ago when they still used the old double deckers, lovely old things, getting around was quite slow though, got out at one bus stop and walked on, the bus was still unloading passengers so by the time I reached the next stop the bus would catch up aaaaaaand again unload/load new passengers, managed to stay ahead for like three stops or so..
