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This is a cool decision. Next step - drunken driving
http://www.theweek.co.uk/67776/googles-autonomous-cars-are-their-own-drivers-says-us
I simply ask why?
If you don't want to drive, take the bus or a taxi.
People who need reliability don't use laptops or desktops.
Maybe bus services are far more comprehensive and taxis much cheaper where you live. I've just driven 2 hours home from quite a comprehensive lunch. Would have happily let the car do the driving if it could. Bus would have taken 5-6 hours. At a guess a taxi would have been £150, perhaps more.
I travel a lot for work, pretty much only by train because I can work while I travel. This is fine for traveling to London, but much more of an inconvenience when I'm trying to get to an industrial estate in the Midlands. Self-driving car would fix that for me.
Projected profit margins are a bit slow this month miss moneypenny please upload 52000 faults to make the buggers spend and we have a cancelled order so kill 10 cars so we can shift the overstock .
I imagine lots of people don't want one of these for themselves. Which I think is fine. It's more than fine. I only worry that the naysayers will try to frighten each other along the lines of, "they'll make us all drive one". And technology is unsafe, I once had digital watch and it stopped working! Most major technical advantages through history elicit the same sentiment. Man walking with a red flag in front of motor cars, etc.
Philosophically, I'm quite amused that people have a technological period in time they cling to and they convince themselves that is the best period, but it's flexible for given elements in their life. I don't want sat nav, I can read a map. Now let me log onto the internet to share that view....
That's not a sleight on anyone, I do it myself. The best sport and the best way way to understand it's progress is Test Match Special on Radio 4, and anyone who says otherwise is a crazy philistine who is out to ruin the best way of life.
I remember similar conversations with my father when alive, born in 1912 he saw a very broad band of everyday life changes, telephone, radio, electricity, television, then colour TV, digitizing photography, computers, mobile phones etc.
He died saying nobody would see so many changes in one lifetime, yet the way things are moving I doubt that very much. As Oding says, "Nothing is as constant as change" it's as certain as death and taxes.
Great story Ed, puts it in perspective. Thought for a minute you were going to say she drove a cruiser up until her 105th birthday. [emoji4].
My Grandpa lived to nearly 102. I've often thought of what he had seen and gone through.
First World War- captured, POW
Second World War- Captain Manwaring, would've got blown up if he hadn't picked up and thrown the dropped grenade!
50's involved in the production and development of the hovercraft.
Awarded MBE.