Parrot Operated Robotic Vehicles - our future?

[gturner]

Are PORV's the future of avian locomotion?

Jalopnik link

With on of these configured as a shopping cart, the parrots could drive to the pet store and buy their own bird feed.

 

[sojourner]

"12 people were killed today when a car chased a man with a box of crackers through a crowded city park".

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Gentlemen, the future is here.

 

[Kruezerman]

Parrots are dicks.

 

[publiusr]

They were even to control bombs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
http://www.vectorsite.net/twbomb_04.html

 

[gturner]

Those were pigeons, not parrots. Pigeons are subject to group-think, mob mentality, and nationalistic jingoism, and are easily turned into mindless weapons. Parrots, on the other hand, are just dicks.