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does it matter? if everyone around you is driving one, will you really feel safer?
and can you imagine how much your insurance would be?
Oh NO They won't. For those who sit doing what ever while their cage pilots them around, there still will be drivers, both good and bad.
When a driverless car sufferes a flat ot or some other break down, I don't know what will be programed, but what ever that is will likely still need man.
Air lines run on auto pilot, but a man is still needed to take off and more important land.
Before this can take place, we must somehow break from oil. There is a little problem there. If engines no longer use oil base fuels, bearings and gears will still need to be lubricated with something.
All this driverless stuff is pretty easy to dream up if the dreamer has no mechanical abilty what so ever. In the real world it's another thing.
I am old enough to have worked older cars. Back then you popped the hood and lo and behold there was a engine! Do that today and it a wiring tubing mess, and you have to look hard to find the engine.
Most of the stuff under the hood these days has very little to do with Go.
Oh NO They won't. For those who sit doing what ever while their cage pilots them around, there still will be drivers, both good and bad.
When a driverless car sufferes a flat ot or some other break down, I don't know what will be programed, but what ever that is will likely still need man.
Air lines run on auto pilot, but a man is still needed to take off and more important land.
Before this can take place, we must somehow break from oil. There is a little problem there. If engines no longer use oil base fuels, bearings and gears will still need to be lubricated with something.
All this driverless stuff is pretty easy to dream up if the dreamer has no mechanical abilty what so ever. In the real world it's another thing.
I am old enough to have worked older cars. Back then you popped the hood and lo and behold there was a engine! Do that today and it a wiring tubing mess, and you have to look hard to find the engine.
Most of the stuff under the hood these days has very little to do with Go.
Have you watched any of the vids of driverless cars?
Sorry 56 k mo dumb here. I can't get a video to load in my llife time. You could tell me what you see if you like.
Truely I don't look forward to a car that can be programmed to point B, and just go there alone.
There seems to be a need of that for some people who have 0 skills and 0 interested to learn any, but me, I am a hands on guy and I used to fix cars for a living as a pro. I still fix all my own cars,trucks and bikes , and do a select few customers too.
I work with my hands and body, building machines for Industry, and do a lot of other labors I wouldn't have a life with out.
I make things from wood, leather and a wide variety of metals, using hand tools and power tools precisely. I make tools of wood, stone, and metals almost every day.
I ride motorcycles any chances I get, and I get plenty of chances. I can see, and over the years have observed myself, there are non-drivers out there doing anything but drive.
But that isn't my way to live and it will never be my way to live. I love the feel of the wind and sometimes rain in my face riding motorcycles. I am not really thrilled with most cars, but a car that has a little get up and go, and can turn in the corners suits me pretty well just the same.
I like the open road with out lots of traffic, and am located in a place where that non-traffic exists. There are a few roads I can ride for about 40 miles and just be unlucky to see any other vehical at all.
LOL having a GPS here is worse than useless it will just get you lost. I am 100% sure of this, since there is a new addition to the household, a woman who isn't from here, and so bought a GPS to help her get around. So far 100% the GPS has her lost.
Being old fashion in most things, I still use the program called MAP.
I still shave myself when I do, and I won't be happy to turn that over to a computer either. One mistake and my throat gets slit. I really don't care about the blue screen of death, that problem belongs to the dammned computer.
Of course I won't live so long to see such a foolish device move a vehical as the norm, but I can rest assured that when the power grid drops so will the vehicals. Now I'ld like to be around to see that!
I know that will happen as sure as I know come winta', it's gonna snow, and when that happens the non-drivers amoung us will land in the ditch, which is a fair spectacle right now.
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