Reply to: Musings of the day

[OwlHoot]

2015-11-06 Driverless Cars Will Change the Way We Think of Car Ownership

[NibblyPig]

Has Tim Cook and Paul O'Grady ever been seen in the same room, how do we know they are not the same person ?

[MicrosoftBob]

Has Tim Cook and Paul O'Grady ever been seen in the same room, how do we know they are not the same person ?

[NibblyPig]

metro seller back (from the dead?)

genius council has marked out street car parking on a main road, street completely jammed as a bus, even a van, cannot squeeze through at the same time as another vehicle leading to chaos (do they ever think these things through?)

decent weather today (will it last?)

cover of the metro is literally a full page advert today (do you just tear it off and bin it?)

still no surface book (when!?)

[NibblyPig]

Watched an episode of 8 out of 10 cats

Rachel Riley is definitely a bit tasty

I am probably late to this party

[alphadog]

I reckon self driving cars will completely transform the property market.

15 years ago we all thought that we'd be working remotely from Caribbean beaches by now but that hasn't happened at all.

Even when we do finally get a ubiquitous driverless uber service (my bet is 10 years from now), the number of vehicles on the road will probably increase so dramatically that cost/time benefits will be somewhat less than we hope they might be.

[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'?

[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'?

[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

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.