etotheipi | 06 Oct 2014 12:15 p.m. PST |
OK, so I just saw an ad for an Infinity automobile. It's about all the "safety" features on the new auto. It comes across to me like, "Hey, buy this car. You're not really responsible to others when you're on the road, anyway." BTW, this, not technology, is why we don't have flying cars. |
Streitax | 06 Oct 2014 1:48 p.m. PST |
That is the intended purpose, but how many folks will think 'It's OK to text and drive NOW, because I have all these warning systems to keep me out of trouble.' A cautionary tale on that note, pilots entering the air defense zone over North Vietnam in that war had multiple systems to alert them to all sorts of things but they would turn off all but the most critical because when they were focused on getting in and out alive, the alerts were more of a distraction than a help and their minds usually shut them out anyway. So I don't think texters will be saved from their mistakes by most of these safety devices except, perhaps, the automatic braking sysems. |
Blake Walker | 06 Oct 2014 2:12 p.m. PST |
Flying airs? You'd trust the masses to be pilots? I bought a new car back in August 2014. My old Corolla was totaled in an accident. Someone ran into me at a yield sign. She wasn't paying attention. I don't know if she was on her cell phone or not. However, her insurance paid for everything in the end. But I was without a car for a couple of weeks. I should have gone through her insurance. I went through mine. I'm normally a very defensive driver. I don't get on the cell phone when I drive. But lots of others do, by God. Do I sound like a curmurdgeon… Blake |
Zephyr1 | 06 Oct 2014 2:20 p.m. PST |
Cars need text-activated ejector seats. "ooh, let me send this!" tap-tap-tap-etc. >boop< SHOOOoooosh… (scream and thud in distance) |
Rod I Robertson | 06 Oct 2014 2:36 p.m. PST |
Why are you young'uns bathering me with that inter-web stuff like My Face or Yourtube anyway? Get off my lawn and clear out you vile little urchins or I'll take a switch to your backside! That's the problem with kids today – no one ever administered a good, fatal beating to their arses to put the fear of God into them and now they've all gone feral. All "ya but" and "No way" and never "Please" or "Thank you". They're no better than varmits now! Why back in my day when …. |
etotheipi | 06 Oct 2014 4:42 p.m. PST |
The things in the car are to mitigate occasional surprise circumstances, not to replace an aware, defensive driver. Dynamite and Gelignite were invented to mitigate the dangers of the industrial use of nitroglycerin. |
Dynaman8789 | 06 Oct 2014 4:55 p.m. PST |
> Dynamite and Gelignite were invented to mitigate the dangers of the industrial use of nitroglycerin. And very effective inventions they have been too. I don't see any problem at all with the technology other than it will become required on all cars sometime in the next 10 years since no safety feature ever remains optional. |
Pictors Studio | 06 Oct 2014 7:24 p.m. PST |
In one hundred years people are going to think we were barbarians for driving ourselves anywhere. |
John the OFM | 06 Oct 2014 8:35 p.m. PST |
Get a shave, you … hippie!!!! |
Shagnasty | 06 Oct 2014 8:36 p.m. PST |
If people are here in a hundred years. |
Great War Ace | 07 Oct 2014 8:09 a.m. PST |
Flying "cars" would actually be the swiftest way to "drive" by computer. And compared to automated roadway driving, by air would result in zero collisions, therefore being much safer. There would be no need for "pilots" at all, the 'puter would take over the moment you went airborne and until it brought you back to earth…. |
Weasel | 07 Oct 2014 9:23 a.m. PST |
This is why we can't invent time travel. You make a TARDIS, go back in time and talk to a medieval peasant. They ask you what the future is like and you explain that you made a metal box that can go faster than any horse, runs on explosions and after we made that, we tried to make the exploding metal-horse machine safer. They'd wipe out the entire planet just so the madness couldn't take root :) |