Posted on 05/03/2016 3:11:42 PM PDT by dayglored
A Canadian car safety expert has introduced the world to a surprising moral panic, warning that if people no longer have to drive their cars, they'll have sex in them instead.
The idea that an autonomous vehicle might become a “shaggin' wagon”* comes from Barrie Kirk, Executive Director of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Center of Excellence, who told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “I am predicting that, once computers are doing the driving, there will be a lot more sex in cars”.
Kirk's fear is that if the computer asks the human to take over at a crucial moment, their attention (not to mention their hands and possibly feet) are otherwise occupied.
... [Note: go to the Register article, it's got photos and more humor...]
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Sex addicts lose all self respect and self awareness.
Works for me. Better than almost driving into a center divide on that one time.
Honestly, the way people drive, it can’t be much worse! (Source: I drive a school bus in a part of Calgary that has plenty of hajib-wearing colonists. Self driving cars would be an improvement!)
The downside will be, if I am still driving when ‘self-driving’ cars are introduced in a big way. I fear having to explain to the eight year old student on my bus who asks why the car stopped beside me at the red light, is shaking and the occupants are moaning or hollering! It is one thing to explain to your own kids, quite another to explain/excuse to someone else’s kids on your bus! The company wouldn’t pay any extra for that responsibility!
Been talked about in science fiction for decades.
No DUI and I can shag a hag?
Bonus...!
BEEP BEEP!
BONK BONK!!
BANG BANG!!!
where can i buy one?
this will sure cheer up (and give new meaning to) the “commute grind”
Sex sells...
Open the pod bay door Hal.....
I carpool to work and back with my beautiful girlfriend (and wife of 26 years). She looks like the best of Katherine Hepburn and Sigourney Weaver as combined by Michangelo on a good day. We get trapped in traffic jams all the time. There are much better things we could do than listen to the radio while trying not to run into the brake happy b@stard in front of us :-)
But what use is the “self-driving” bit if it isn't autonomous?
I want the car to take me home from the bar....:^)
Back in the day I could dial long distance direct on a rotary phone, the hard way. She was right there to assist & provide continuous needed stimulation.
Not realli.
But it does prove once again that all technological advances are driven by porn (internet) and sex (self driving cars, VR, human-looking robots).
And the dashboard cam will automatically transmit - I wonder if autosex.com is an available domain...
Not available. Registered in August 2000, in London, by a "John Smith" who has only a P.O. Box for an address.
Yeah but:
Them older cars sure had more room for entertaining guests.
DANG! Another entrepreneurial opportunity gone! ;-P
This is why cars have a back seat.
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