Posted on 03/24/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
I have that very same decked out Impala in my garage, but in original Cashmere Blue. It’s in the class of, “Clean Survivor”. It’s not frame off restoration, but has been taken care before I bought it in 2013, and I’ve done much more. I consider my Impala to have the best lines on any 1950’s design. It’s a piece of art.
Taking a girl on a date could be bery entertaining with a driverless car.
Just a warning to fathers and mothers.
I want a driverless motorcycle.
No one is going to take your little deuce coupe away from you when self driving becomes available. But it is going to mean freedom for a lot of people. And we are no longer going to have to take grannys keys when she becomes a danger just get her a car that doesnt require her to be a road hazard every time she goes to bingo.
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Thanks for making a great point in contrast to the bitchy curmudgeons.
My brother and I talk about this all the time. I read that 50 percent would choose a robot doctor right now. Index fund investing involving computers means they do not have colds, fights with the wife, a late night binge to affect their performance.
Add to this, the young embrace any tech that comes along, it will come to humans will quit exposing their brains to any task as I see it. Sci fi, which I hate, is becoming all to real at the moment.
No more great and magnificent human achievement. No more Neil Armstrong, Charles Lindbergh, great musicians or performers, no more average Joe achievements. Just robots.
Bad To The Bone is the first song on one my thumb drives for my Impala. I have a photo on my FB page with my 58 Impala sitting next to the original 58 Plymouth Fury from the movie Christine. It’s beyond cool.
That’s a good one when cruising down the hwy.
Of course. But we KNOW we should avoid it. Not sure some of those intelligence markers are making it into these true automobiles.
There are far too many variables for driving a car. It is just too difficult to account for all the variables in AI with a moving object of decent size and speed.
For a train? OK. Basically stays on the tracks. But a car has too many degrees of freedom to cover it all with some robot.
Yes, with AUTOmobiles they can just make love to their mini-computers non-stop.
imagine being one of the outsiders..the non demon party and Christian...
you could not go anywhere except with govt approval.
I would also like to congratulate the author for the single best headline of the last 20 years. Outstanding.
I know what he means. They all look the same and that is a drab, boring teardrop-wedge look.
Its not just drive. Its looks. That is HUGE for me.
You might have a point with buses. Not sure though. Except maybe the degrees of freedom can be reduced by programming a specific route.
As for indie, it may be not worth it even if it was perfect. Might be too much of a pain to do all the stopping you want.
I still love my 02 Monte. Great looks, and fun to drive especially just dragging.
Never mind my big hunk 79 Town Car, which alas is rotting away and my husband doesnt understand.
Just in case anyone buys the story that killing the pedestrian was “unavoidable,” even the far-left British “Guardian” disagrees:
Because the wussie-boys of today don't care about cars, unless they have all the hi-tech gadgets.
In the North. Cal Bay Area, we already have BART (Bay-Area-Rail-Transport). An electric train system, that operates, mostly without drivers. The human attendants are still needed, though, in case people get rowdy or sleep for the entire route and take up limited space.
I have been told that the BARTs don’t even touch the track while in motion. They somehow float above the rail during that period. Maybe that’s the dreaded Third Rail we are warned NEVER to touch.
I agree.
Autonomous Vehicles under your control are one thing. AVs under Gov’t Control are a totally different beast.
The latter are what we are most likely to get.
“Could there be anything less American than driverless cars?”
Democrats. “
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