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  • Self-Driving Cars

    New government rules for the "autonomous" automobile.

    http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/30/auto...source=cnn_bin

    Three states now legalize self-driving cars for at least testing purposes. More, no doubt, to follow.

    This is the future.
    τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

  • #2
    No, it isn't.
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    • #3
      We'll have levitating cars before self driving car. Sooner, if I have anything to do with it.

      When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
      -Mid Summer's Night Dream

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
        No, it isn't.
        Skynet apparently isn't driving Walter's car.
        "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
        "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
        "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
        GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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        • #5
          I can't wait. One aspect of it I read is that you don't need to own a car anymore. Instead of having a car that sits in your garage and your work parking lot 95% of the time, you just order a self-driving car from a service. It arrives at your home, takes you to your destination, and then picks you up again. A super cheap taxi service.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by SandYFan View Post
            I can't wait. One aspect of it I read is that you don't need to own a car anymore. Instead of having a car that sits in your garage and your work parking lot 95% of the time, you just order a self-driving car from a service. It arrives at your home, takes you to your destination, and then picks you up again. A super cheap taxi service.
            In my line of work, we refer to that as The Cloud.
            "The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuane

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            • #7
              Unless it's a collectable, why own a car if you aren't going to drive it?
              "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill


              "I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader

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              • #8
                Originally posted by SandYFan View Post
                I can't wait. One aspect of it I read is that you don't need to own a car anymore. Instead of having a car that sits in your garage and your work parking lot 95% of the time, you just order a self-driving car from a service. It arrives at your home, takes you to your destination, and then picks you up again. A super cheap taxi service.
                for some reason I doubt it will be cheap.
                Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                Alessandro Manzoni

                Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
                  No, it isn't.
                  Well, it's not quite the present yet.
                  τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
                    No, it isn't.
                    "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
                      for some reason I doubt it will be cheap.
                      I don't see any reason it needs to be more expensive than a taxi service already is.
                      τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by All-American View Post
                        I don't see any reason it needs to be more expensive than a taxi service already is.
                        which validates my point.
                        Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                        God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                        Alessandro Manzoni

                        Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                        pelagius

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by All-American View Post
                          I don't see any reason it needs to be more expensive than a taxi service already is.
                          Taxis are exorbitant.
                          "Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied

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                          • #14
                            Google buildings surround our humble office, and I see driverless cars from time to time (although there's always a driver in them). I'm curious how these things will handle short-term changes in a street due to construction (where the crew diverts traffic onto the shoulder or into the oncoming lane). I also wonder how/if it will anticipate trouble (e.g., a group of little kids playing ball just to the side of the road). But I'd love to be chauffeured to and from the office and elsewhere.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
                              Google buildings surround our humble office, and I see driverless cars from time to time (although there's always a driver in them). I'm curious how these things will handle short-term changes in a street due to construction (where the crew diverts traffic onto the shoulder or into the oncoming lane). I also wonder how/if it will anticipate trouble (e.g., a group of little kids playing ball just to the side of the road). But I'd love to be chauffeured to and from the office and elsewhere.
                              I love the idea, I just see it happening later rather than sooner. I would not be surprised if it happened sometime during my lifetime, perhaps when I'm an old man, maybe your age.
                              Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                              God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                              Alessandro Manzoni

                              Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                              pelagius

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