Apple CarPlay Ping!
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Posted on 04/03/2018 10:38:54 AM PDT by C19fan
yep, they were totally entertaied while the car drove off the cliff or whatever.
If they want to give you the airplane experience they will need to make you wait in long lines at security and get squashed on both sides by “large” people for hours at a time.
Double bonus if they add a screaming child to the sound-track!
With the special aromatics you can take a trip and never leave the farm.
Don't forget to pack your sex robot!
Watch porn while you crash into a tree
"Music to drown by, now I know I'm in first class!"
As the Apple driverless car careens over the edge and the occupants are plunging to their firey deaths their last recorded words were:
"Isn't this Apple 360 degree video game cool?" "Yeah man, and the Apple surround sound audio in this thing is da bomb!"
The Matrix is now a documentary.
Each different compilation contain's literally hundreds of accidents recorded from inside the victim's vehicles as they happened, and new ones are added almost daily. Just watch, it's enough to turn your hair gray and never get in a moving vehicle again, let alone a "driverless car".
Oh, one more thing; at least 50 to 60% of the recorded accidents are NOT the drivers fault. They have the misfortune of being in the exact wrong place at the wrong time, and there is absolutely nothing they can do to prevent it.
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>>Some people have DVD players and other entertainment in their cars, to keep their children occupied on even short trips running errands and such.
“Some people”? More like LOTS and LOTS of people. It’s a huge mass market thing. Built in media players and screens, etc. A standard option in many minivans and SUVs. Lots of retrofit kits out there, too.
The firm has filed a patent that describes how passengers in autonomous vehicles could pass the time with VR headsets.
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I wonder what that would do for motion sickness?
> People would be just as perturbed, I think, if you suggested their plane doesn’t need a pilot, or their train doesn’t need an engineer.
In the 1970's I commuted on the PATCO High-Speed Line railway between south New Jersey and Philadelphia every day for most of a decade. No engineer, no driver, all computerized (with 1969-era computer technology) and radio control.
I'd estimate I took a few thousand rides, and of those, I can count the number of times there was a PATCO engineer at the controls on one hand. And those were because of reports of youths making trouble or hassling other passengers. The people who rode the driverless trains were fascinated and/or bored, but not perturbed.
OTOH, planes do need a pilot because otherwise no one would ride them, but when you consider how much of the flying time the plane is on auto-pilot, it seems rather silly. Granted, I probably wouldn't trust someone else's software for takeoffs and landings...
"Kinky!"
I grant you, that's a good argument for never getting in a moving vehicle.
But given that we do, getting into a driverless vehicle seems only slightly more risky than driving it oneself.
Personally, having been a passenger in vehicles driven by distracted or impaired drivers, or who were just poor drivers, I'd rather have been riding in a software-controlled a vehicle. Most people are simply not very good drivers.
It's been over 40 years and things have changed -- I think these days they have to have an operator or some authority figure on the train because with one end of the line in Philly, the likelihood of youths causing trouble is infinitely higher than it was in the 70's when I rode it.
During the 1990s, I had a Nissan Quest that had a TV and VCR in the back. I don’t think I ever had it turned on.
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