Posted on 05/18/2019 5:24:59 AM PDT by NOBO2012
It’s worth noting that even in the Jetson’s future world of flying cars a driver was still required.
That’s because the Jetsons lived in a world where technology may have advanced but the fundamental elements of human nature remained the same. Which is to say most humans like to be in control. Driving gives us that sense, we can’t control the other idiots on the road but we can control how we maneuver around their stupidity. And that may be why we may actually be closer to the flying car
than the driverless car.
Warning: the images in your rearview mirror are likely not your biggest concern
This despite Elon Musk’s dream car doing its best to get you to leave the driving to Tesla. Which strikes me as even more insane than turning control of your house over to Alexa. While I sort of get why you’d like a computerized assistant to restock the toilet paper and coffee supply I cannot in a thousand years imagine why you’d turn your car controls over to a computer whose guts were built in China and will be, like your laptop, prone to failure at the most inopportune moment…
leaving you completely vulnerable.
Autopilot was active when a Tesla crashed into a truck, killing driver.
The National Transportation Safety Board said a 2018 Tesla Model 3, driven by 50-year-old Jeremy Banner, was in autopilot mode when it collided with a semi truck.
NTSB investigators said Banner turned on the autopilot feature about 10 seconds before the crash, and the autopilot did not execute any evasive maneuvers to avoid the collision.
The Tesla was traveling 68 miles per hour at the time of the crash, according to the NTSB.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said the tractor trailer pulled into the path of the Tesla, and the Tesla's roof was sheared off as it passed underneath the semi. Banner died at the scene.
But then, I’ve written about this before: Driverless Cars: The Pinnacle of Soul-Sucking Anti-American Wussification
Could there be anything less American than driverless cars? I suppose sexbots might quality but certainly driverless cars are right up there.
Why would you NOT want to drive this?
Seriously, driverless cars have no place in the land that practically invented the open road, hit-the-road-Jack-never-come-back motif.
Read the whole thing. It’s still fun. And that’s what cars once were: fun, fun, fun. Now you can take a 3 day cross country road trip and count on one hand the number of cars that are any color other than black, white, sliver or gray. Sad I tell you, just sad.
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The photo of the Vette. Looks like a 59. Really doesn’t matter what year. If someone said Valk, you can have any old classic car you want, just choose one. That’s the one I’d take. For me, that’s one of the best looking cars EVER made. Red would be my 1st choice with yellow being my 2nd choice.
To be fair there were other times cars all looked alike. Take 1930.
When i was 4 or 5—about 1950—I could identify cars by their tail lights. Each brand had a distinctive pattern. Children were allowed to sit in the front seat back then, so I had a good view.
1964 summer vacation, drove a big circle around the USA in a brand new Chevrolet Impala
The Feds would have to mandate 5G in rural areas, otherwise the private development wouldn’t happen because of the lack of return on their investments.
So us country boys will survive..
A toast to your friend with the 5th.
Your comment made me laugh, everything I’ve built has been my favorite color red,i plan on doing a 62 nova next with a 434 stroker with blower and I plan on it being bright yellow.
Flying Cars = Metal Rain
In California anyway.
You couldn’t get me into an autopilot Tesla or anything else, at gunpoint.
Hey Man !!! You could have stopped in NJ and picked Me up. I was a low maintenance 3 year old. All I needed was some juice and a few cookies and I was happy.
So a Carrot & Stick would not have worked ?
And I thought You had a sense of adventure.
somehow i don’t think eight hours a day in the backseat of a car at three years old would have been a lot of fun...
I do, but not a death wish...
I ended my loyalty to GM brands when they successfully blocked Japanese imported cars, gave themselves big bonuses, and jacked up the price of their cars. Never again. And that way maybe forty years. Been a Chrysler guy, mostly.
Of the Chrysler products that I have owned, two were worth having. Both were 1969 models. One was a Plymouth GTX and the other was a Plymouth Valiant. Naturally my GTX was for FUN and my Valiant was my work car.
I also owned a Dodge Ramcharger (BLECH!)and a Chrysler Concorde (BORING as hell).
Totally a FORD guy now. Had a really sweet Taurus Limited for a time. Have an F-150 Super Cab and an Edge. Love them, both!
I liked my LeBaron blown four-banger convertible so much, when time came for a new car, I bought a later model LeBaron convertible, only it was a V6. That little four-banger, with the blower kicked in, could run circles around the V6.
I got into a race with a guy in a Mustang V8 away from a stop light and beat him to the next light. As he pulled alongside me he said, “I need a tuneup.” LOL Four cylinders of kick ass.
Well......OK
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