Musings of the day

[MrMarkyMark]

My friends Orthopaedic Doctor also handled cash payments, for recreational substances, as he found out when he went to get his back done .

[NibblyPig]

My nokia 3310 developed an issue where it turns itself off randomly. I googled it, and it is apparently a thing.

I bought the phone thinking it'd survive the apocalypse, so I am tres disappointed.

Asda do a cheap phone for 8 quid but it has been out of stock the last two visits, so I suspect a bait & switch. If I go back there a third time and it's out of stock I'm not going to be happy.

[original PM]

I would imagine that sadly self drive cars will always need an available human driver at all times - thus the idea of being able to get your car to drive you home after a skin full is sadly still a far off pipedream

would have been nice.....

all it will do is stop the useless tw@s you see on the motorway doing 55 in the middle lane

unless you can turn it off - in which case they will as it would not (logically) drive them along at 55 in the middle lane which is where they believe they should be.

[OwlHoot]

I would imagine that sadly self drive cars will always need an available human driver at all times ...

Always? That's a long time. Are you sure you aren't simply hostile to the idea of not being in control of the car?

I suspect that is the main issue for most auto-car naysayers these days. I mean surely not everyone is that unimaginative and incapable of extrapolating increasingly obvious trends, especially people in IT.

[d000hg]

I think it's a long way off but it certainly should be possible for a computer to be more reliable than even an alert, decent driver.

If we could switch all at once so ALL cars were automated it would be easy (relatively), the transition of having to interact with idiot humans makes it far harder.

I do wonder if we might see "car train lanes" earlier on, because that's an easy challenge. Same for lorries.

[original PM]

Always? That's a long time. Are you sure you aren't simply hostile to the idea of not being in control of the car?

I suspect that is the main issue for most auto-car naysayers these days. I mean surely not everyone is that unimaginative and incapable of extrapolating increasingly obvious trends, especially people in IT.

No I think it is a great idea...

problem is it will decimate the taxi industry - I mean I only get a cab when I am too drunk to drive - I will no longer need to do that

[NibblyPig]

2 problems

problem 1, people realise they're doing sod all in the car and that the law on requiring a driver is stupid

problem 2, technology hits a point where it's almost good enough not to have a driver and people keep crashing because they're having a kip in the back when the computer says please take over I've crashed

[NibblyPig]

additional musings of the day

the person handing out the metro was absent on my morning commute (maybe dead?)

had a conversation about brass eye in the pub at the weekend and realised that paedogeddon has come true

not sure if it is acceptable to watch anything with jimmy saville or rolf harris in it, such as a HIGNFY episode, or if it makes you a paedo sympathiser or something

what is the most you should pay for a cocktail, cos 9 quid seems excessive

[d000hg]

No I think it is a great idea...

problem is it will decimate the taxi industry - I mean I only get a cab when I am too drunk to drive - I will no longer need to do that

Yeah but they'd have plenty of time to see the changes coming. And lots of people use taxis because they don't have cars. Maybe people will own fewer cars when you can summon an automated 'taxi'?

[original PM]

Yeah but they'd have plenty of time to see the changes coming. And lots of people use taxis because they don't have cars. Maybe people will own fewer cars when you can summon an automated 'taxi'?