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08-10-12, 09:26 PM
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Autonomous Vehicles
What's your take on autonomous vehicles, a real possibility or another gimmick and car companies wasting money?
why not put all the money into researching renewable energy for vehicles?
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08-10-12, 09:34 PM
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Re: Autonomous Vehicles
Does this mean I'll be able to drive down the pub, get blotto and let the motor take me home?
I see this as the one unassailable virtue of a self driving motor.
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08-10-12, 09:37 PM
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Re: Autonomous Vehicles
Ah you see autonomous cars are a conundrum, would it be ok to get p*ssed and get your car to pick you up from the pub and take you home? Or would the inbred bunch of hi viz wearers from Brussels still call that dangerous? Also would they invent autonomous petrol pumps? If so shopping would be ace, the wife could feck off in the car get dropped off, the car would trundle off to the pumps to top up, go back pick her up and bring her home.
But don't know whether it would catch on? I suspect it's just a way for manufactures to show who swings the bigger cod piece when it comes to tech' know how!  But who knows one day........one day? Edit: Damn you Sid you beat me to it! Last edited by Thunderace; 08-10-12 at 09:39 PM. |
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That would be the case. You would need somebody of 'good mind' to be in charge of the vehicle!
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If an SV650 has a flat tyre in the forest and no-one is there to blow it up, how long will it be 'til someone posts that the reg/rec is duff and the world will end unless a CBR unit is fitted? A little bit of knowledge = a dangerous thing. "a deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst" |
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09-10-12, 08:33 AM
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You could put MORE money into renewable energy vehicles but theres a lot o it there already and you do get diminsihing returns.
Theres only so many crackpot schemes and dead ends you can fund. |
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09-10-12, 09:05 AM
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Re: Autonomous Vehicles
Cruise control...
Automatic braking... Distance control... Ability to keep within the lines... All already exist... fully Autonomous Vehicles are simply the next step.
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