Why would you NOT want to drive this?Posted on 03/24/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Could there be anything less American than driverless cars? I suppose sexbots might quality but certainly driverless cars are right up there.
Seriously, driverless cars have no place in the land that practically invented the open road, hit-the-road-Jack-never-come-back motif. And Michael Walsh agrees:
…these vehicles are emasculating, imprisoning, anti-American, and inhuman. And now, in the wake of the first fatal accident involving an “autonomous vehicle,” they’re deadly as well.
Whence comes this rush to robot cars? Did the public demand it? Or have our betters in the tech industry and in the bowels of the bureaucracy taken it upon themselves to correct our lamentable human failings and, in the name of “safety,” shove these vehicles down our throats?
He also touches on how the fear of terrorism has led to the trashing of the Fourth Amendment. Citing how we’re all subject to government overreach, unreasonable search and seizure at airports and “legal” snooping via your computer, phone (and bank records) he wonders “why would you climb into a robocar and take yourself hostage on purpose?” And notes that convenience “is no reason to voluntarily surrender your personal autonomy to something that will, by definition, be subject to close governmental scrutiny and control.”
All of which seems self-evident to anyone of a certain age. Not so for Millennials – many of whom didn’t even want to learn how to drive – who have been conditioned by propaganda to embrace mass transportation, Ubers and Zipcars. Not only do they feel they are saving the planet by not owning their own means of transportation. And it allows them to forego yet another right of passage to adulthood: the assumption of responsibility for owning and operating a set of wheels to get them from where they are to where they think they want to go. They’ll never appreciate that joie de vivre kindled simply by listening to a “road song” written to celebrate freedom and mobility – both euphemistically and literally. Pity, really.
Here’s just a partial list of my best ‘Hit the Road’ songs, feel free to add your own:
The Beach Boys — ‘Little Deuce Coupe’
Ronnie and the Daytonas – Little GTO – aka the “The Wah Wah song”
The Stills-Young Band — ‘Long May You Run’
Janis Joplin — ‘Mercedes Benz’
Wilson Pickett — ‘Mustang Sally’
Willie Nelson — ‘On The Road Again’
The Doors – Riders on the Storm
Prince — ‘Little Red Corvette’
Tracy Chapman — ‘Fast Car’
Don Henley — ‘Boys of Summer’
And of course the ultimate Motown car song, Aretha Franklin’s Freeway of Love (in her Pink Cadillac)
Mr. Walsh concludes his analysis of driverless cars with this:
But that’s what the land of the free is rapidly becoming: a nation of passengers, without even enough gumption to be backseat drivers. Enjoy the ride.
They once said “as GM goes, so goes the nation.” I say “no” to gray, soul-less, driverless cars. I say let’s make Motown great again and see how it works out for the rest of the country.
So let’s hit the road, Jack (and Jackie).
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I need a driverless car to avoid parking downtown.
Just let the car circle the block as I run errands.
Cars have been soulless for years. No character what so ever.
Did you see the video of the driverless car that killed the woman? The driver wasn’t paying the least bit of attention to the road. People will be asleep or playing on the iphones when behind the wheel and won’t wake up when their car crashes them into the side of a building or a mom mobile with six kids.
The pinnacle of stupid, more like it.
Good article except for the “wee the USA” typo. Har!!
Test drive an Alfa-Romeo.
If you’re gonna have “road songs” you have to include THE road song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZ1k4d02KA
An America that is lost and never coming back.
First of all, why the obsession with GM?
OK, now more to the point.
Do these cars know when there is a cliff they should avoid? Will someone direct it to go on those crazy cliff-ridden roads in CA and it makes a slight mistake beyond the lines and then goes over the cliff? Never mind the other side where it might run into the cliff face...but I assume it can “see” the wall so not as risky as the chasm on the other side.
They’ll go over big with the I-Phone set that must be on the phone every waking moment of the day. The ones with the phone lag bolted to a cramped, deformed hand.
In the liberal vision of the future there is no private ownership of cars, driverless or otherwise.
IOW, self-driving cars won’t be available for purchase for the ordinary Joe or Jane.
I used to think anyone driving cars with automatic transmissions were wusses. I’m more tolerant today, but this abomination is just plain bad.
“Cars have been soulless for years. No character what so ever.”
You’ve been driving the wrong cars.
In the liberal vision of the future there is no private ownership of cars, driverless or otherwise.
IOW, self-driving cars won’t be available for purchase for the ordinary Joe or Jane.
What else would we expect from the coddled generation?
Idiocracy was a documentary: A tube up the butt, one down the throat, and chronic masturbation.
I don’t mind “Driverless” or unmanned buses over large areas of large cities. That’s a matter of utility and expedience. I do mind the prospect of having to use driverless private vehicles all the time to travel as one person. There are moments when I sort of like driving, and the ability to stop or go as I please. What was it they used to call this?
Oh yes “Joy Riding!”
This is why I’m driving a 99 Chrysler 300M. She’s in great shape, looks sleek, handles like a dream and has plenty of power for me. Probably the last fully American/Canadien built full size auto worth driving. No made in Mexico stickers anywhere on it.
To the point, it has it’s little quirks, but it has a soul that screams “Drive me!”
That’s something I can’t seem to find for under $40,000 at the dealerships these days.
Hipsters and the Techie-Crowd...they are a scourge on our society.
Finally somebody said it.
Steve McQueen & Paul Newman must be rolling over in their graves
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