Posted on 01/12/2018 4:36:18 PM PST by equaviator
Self driving cars is an idea of rich people that never drive anyway
We will be watching out for that, for sure!!!
People with hour long commutes should ask for a cot to be installed.
The General Motors Company (their official post-bailout name) used to emphasize something called the “Voice of the Customer” in it’s product development ‘philosophy’ but I don’t see how this is the result of them actually hearing and listening to it.
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“Voice of the environmentalist wacko subsidized at our expense customer”
Fixed
do these work on gps and motion detection. Both fail in lightening storms. What then at 80 mph? This is absurd.
Yep, i’ll be taking a pass. No brainer.
I have a more than hour long commute. I have less than zero interest in riding a drone.
Does the controlling app connect the cell phone directly to the car, or does it rely on the cell tower infrastructure?
There was a story a year or so ago about some guy with a cell-phone-controlled car who drove out into the Nevada desert, “zero bars”, got out of his car, somehow locked it, and couldn’t unlock it because there was no cell phone coverage there.
Don’t know how he got out of there ... couldn’t call Uber either without a cell phone.
Hitchhike?
I have never seen a positive “Voice of the Customer” memo. It is business-speak for “complaints”.
....women and children, and carjackers affected most.....
If I can’t control it, I’m just not interested.
I don’t know about the rest of you but self-driving, self-flying, self-sailing scares the daylights out of me. I think all of it should be banned in this country. Let them do tests in some of the Shit Holes.
I believe that you do control it (The SureFly).
On days when the clouds are above the mountains, it might be useful.
But if I can’t control it ... fly it (or drive it) by hand ... I’m not interested.
“Self driving cars is an idea of rich people that never drive anyway”
Are people really clamoring for this? I like to drive. Why not autonomous restrooms, where a probe senses discomfort and whisks you off to be roboticly diapered?
“That’s the idea behind SureFly, an octocopter concept capable of carrying two passengers into remote and difficult-to-access areas up to 70 miles away.
Better known for its trucks, Workhorse Group Inc. plans to unveil the technology at the Paris Air Show on June 19.”
“It’s designed to be a short-hop machine — if you can fly a drone, you should be able to fly this,” Steven Burns, chief executive of the Loveland, Ohio, company told Trucks.com.
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