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Wait what? No! What? Hang on a minute
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069
Not really read anything properly but - what?
This isn't my main thread today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069
Not really read anything properly but - what?
This isn't my main thread today.
you get one, this is it
fucking cool innit
Yeah
But surely they mean some vague scifi date in the future that'll never happen. No earlier than 2020
"Scientists reckon we could see these on our roads as early as 2030!!!"
2015? What no! Shut UP.
2020 is only 6 years away!?????
What???!!!
Roads? Where we're going...
...actually we need roads for sure, really well marked out roads so the computer drivers don't get confused.
The distant future - the year 2000!!
The distant future, the distant future.
seriously though
can't wait for driverless cars to be commonplace, think it's a fucking incredible thing.
My old boss used to use the concept of driverless cars as an interview question, essentially asking a series of questions trying to get the candidate to admit that some problems just aren't worth fixing if the cost/benefit isn't there. WHO'S WRONG NOW?
I don't know.
It seems like a crazy old man yelling at cloud sort of argument to me.
pretty much sums him up
I can't wait for the day when dirven cars are only allowed on private roads.
Imagine being able to hop in your car and just have a kip, or read a book, or look at the scenery.
dirven?
driven
APOLOGISE!
You can do that
It's called a taxi ride.
you can do that already
just dont drive anywhere
wasn't sure about this
until I saw the tron-like blue glowing steering wheel, I'm all for it now.
the last thing you see is the flash of blue light
as the google car plows into you and all of those you love, hell bent on destroying the human race in its sentient frenzy
yeah
but how cool will that look though!
I've just booked some driving lessons too
Feel like such an idiot.
I'm only really interested in this if I can buy a robot butler to sit in the driving seat.
haha you FUCKING MUG
Science knocks me down, maosm kicks me in the head
today is not a good day for colossalhorse
do you remember the wee girl in inspector gadget
penny was it? She used to run about with that book that was a computer, I remember thinking wow that is so cool and we have those already.
maybe it was polly
It was Penny
anyway
the name's irrelevant
APOLOGISE
I'M SO SO SO SO SO SO SO
VERY VERY VERY VERY SO, REALLY I AM PLEASE BELIEVE ME
HONESTLY SORRY
VERY MUCH SO
AROUSED?
for you, yes
This is cool but
I really like driving. Not sure I'd want something else to be in charge of it. I'd probably be an awful back-seat driver the whole time.
SSF: "For fucks sake car, it's an open road, just go faster!"
Car: "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave"
SSF: "What? Who's Dave?"
Dave, Leeds
I'm a bit concerned
we can't seem to make an operating system that doesn't shit itself and die every now and again on a standard PC. When a brief freeze can cause a 20 car pile up...well, shit.
"What's that tech support? Off and on again? Well I would but I'm in THE FUCKING RIVER."
if every time your O/S froze someone died
a lot more time and effort would be put into making sure that didn't happen
Yeah and hackers and stuff
Have we seen that in a film yet?
If only Tony Scott were still alive to make it happen.
an episode of the Blacklist did something similar
about a super brilliant criminal hacker, who hacked the CPU of a (non-driverless) car and made the airbags to go off, causing the car to crash.
The INCREDIBLE twist, though — like fucking mind-blowing, would-never-have-guessed-it twist — was that the hacker turned out to be some genius high school kid with poor social skills!!!!
this is all bollocks
I actually totally agree with your reaction
mine is the same.
Its got to be bollocks hasn't it?
I mean, we dont have pilotless planes.......oh wait, yes we do.
Fuck! Im old.
hang on.......I have a big question.......WHY?
here are a few reasons
http://qz.com/138367/the-potential-benefits-of-driverless-cars-are-stunning/
wait a second
that link indicates that the cars will not be driverless and they will require a human driver some of the time........so that means that humans WILL have to still learn to drive and then just use the driverless feature like a sort of super feature cruise control........so no drinking down the pub and no no needing to take a test.
yeah
maybe one day it'll be 100% automated, but you need to learn to crawl before bowing down to our sentient masters who worship the chosen one (Herbie)
its a shame that the incentives to do this difficult stuff
seem to be greater than to bring about a more reasonable sustainable living for the majority of humans........still it will distance some people even more from the poorer parts of the world, and that does seem to be the intent of the daemons that have us........pamper the soft ones till they are even more dependant and cannot possibly envisage living without it, no matter what horrors result elsewhere due to the 'great soft mechanism'
Remove human error and ego (speeding, agression, jumping lights) from driving.
Manage traffic flows easier, responding to changing conditions, jams etc.
Gives opportunities for companies to pay google so that your car drives past a certain billboard.
would be good to go a pub miles away
get smashed and just drive off
that's a good point
also would you need to have passed a driving test to use one? 15 year olds getting larruped and being driven around by robots is a future that interests me.
Any street with a kebab shop on it
will be blocked every night by queue of cars with people drunk and asleep in the back in them.
Also......if driverless technology is so close and imminant
how come those tomtom type navigation direction things still can cope with all roads? If they cant even get that right (where humans have to sometimes ignore the navigation directions) surely that seems rather risky to go driverless?
would still need manual intervention in earlier phases
and as its popularity spreads, more changes could be made to existing traffic systems to make it easier, more dependable until the point where humanity are slaves to cars and it's pretty much planet of the apes where apes are cars hook hand car door
They can if you buy a really expensive one and update it
Most of us are using cheap, shit versions of the technology. I don't think there'll be any cheap, shit driverless cars for a long time.
Shit I bet they haven't thought about this.
Back to square one, Google!
yes Im sure that they have
but why dream such a crap self indulgent dream and aim for that, when you know only certain people will have it?
Are we any closer to rolling out security and freedom from violent unecessary death to humans in some areas of the world? no, yet we invest in this, with the perpetual lie that tech advancement helps the whole world.
The biggest crisis that humans face is that we are TOO good at developing tech, too good cos we have not developed our proficiency at deciding/choosing (communally) what tech would help the world most, not developed our politics/sociology enough so that we can role out benefits to the whole world more evenly........instead tech advancement keeps the advanced nations occupied/enthralled enough to ignore trying to improve our non tech progress.
Our tech divides, not unifies (volkswagens (peoples wagons) were not for all people, only a certain community.....redefine some people as not people)
Bit O/T
but this is my favourite BBC news headline today - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28526106
i liked this one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28562796
This one's best:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-28541690
it's been a decent day for headlines so far
I can't have my back door open.
:)
Sharon Maxfield, of Icknield Green, said the intense pong almost made her "eyes bleed".
so
how exactly will these 'future cars' be powered?
its an awful lot of investment for something that cant be powered.
or is it anticipated that only really rich important people will have these?
there'll be a fan on them
that generates electricity to power the car as it's driving, obviously it'll need a battery to start up before it can generate enough power to keep the car going otherwise it'd be a ridiculous idea.
The person being driven by the car
will have to generate the power to operate it using a cycling machine located in the back of the car.
:) that is a viable solution
a fan? what is powering the fan?
are you suggesting that the forward motion will spin the fan? in which case you have misunderstood my question, as I am questioning what will propel the car forward? the resource for powering cars forward is running out (petrol)
If you are thinking biomass derivatives this is also problematic as there is already a great issue with agriculture producing this at the expense of some foodcrops.
If you are thinking electrical powered cars, think again as this apparently causes enormous logistical headaches for electricity generation and distribution (also there is not necessarily enough for non car use) etc etc
whoops sorry foppyish
I did not detect the nuance of your post I have now :D
i did wonder briefly what was going on
Why not spend all that effort on something not fraught with
problems and which might actually do some good.
Oh because it's cool.
Shut up world.
I am 100% behind you on this
how does that make you feel?
only things which have proven tangible benefits to be researched from now on!
YOU HEAR THAT SCIENCE?
he didnt say that
or imply that,
also this is not about research science as much as technological investment which will then fund science to go to help towards solve a particular range of problems that are specific to a rather purile goal.
There will never be enough excess funds to support all infinate possibilities of research.
It would be interesting to see what would have happened if research into solutions for malaria had had similar funding and resources thrown at it compared with that for motor cars (or similar consumer products)
Its a question of priorities
No that's a (usually) valid argument used in completely the wrong place
This isn't some small piece of science which may be relevant to a larger problem. This is the full solution to a problem which doesn't actually exist.
Many many valid smaller discoveries and technological advances are behind this project, I'll give you that, but this is an inappropriate application of those discoveries.
Oh but it is cool huh! Fifth Element yeah!
this may be mankind's single greatest achievement
no
that would be when we finally fire a rocket at the moon and blow that cunt to pieces.
but what about the waves
and the surfers who surf on those waves?
and me, I love the moon
I've only ever unselfconciously sung love poems to the moon
wind makes waves you bumhat
the moon makes TIDES.
The surfers will have more consistency as to where the wave will be.
mate
pretty certain the waves are caused a combination of boats / submarines / sealife.
Source: science
watch this you swine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-uJz_4P4b8
you may be familiar with some of the stuff earlier on, but I learnt something from the later bits
wait — are you putting forward a reasoned argument?
a problem that doesnt exist
cos road safety is a non-issue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate
yep so second biggest non medical killer after war
spose google could try and fix war
Something about low-riders
terrifying
the positives to autodriving cars are so vast
- safe driving always
- no speeding
- no red light jumping
- economical driving built in by cars that talk to each other
- shorter gaps between cars means higher capacity roads
- removes the worst part of driving; human error
- means you can eat a 99 cone in the front seat whilst on the A515
and all this by 2015?
Sure, why not.
he forgot to mention the ability of the smart cars to detect potholes and take the
optimum swerving route to cause minimal damage.......or maybe they will have introduced the 'self pothole filling road' by then. A perfect match for the new optimism powered smart cars.
will these new smart cars recognise when they have been broken into by a thief
and lock the doors and take them straight to chokey?
Also, when zxcvbnm and creaky try to drop slabs from bridges onto smart cars
will the cars then exit the motorways next exit and race to intercept the villains
probably not
I, for one, welcome our new automotive overlords.
I wonder if they'll show you constant adverts
as the car drives towards a cliff...
customers who drove off cliffs also bought:
parachute ★★★★☆
lifejacket ★★★☆☆
signal flare ★★☆☆☆
3G signal extender ★★★★☆