Driverless Vehicles, Coming To A Road Near You Too Soon!

[highlandsflyer]

Hey Technodoubt, aren't you worried the schemies will whip your alloys? I can understand why you would prefer a vehicle you can call up with your smartphone, and avoid the perils of revealing your enormous personal wealth to your methhead neighbours.

 

[M-Power]

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People who have real money don't tend to give a toss what they drive, and can often be found driving Renault 4s and Pug 205s of ancient vintage. Astons and RRs might be in the garage, but the car they use to head down the village shop is usually a banger of some sort. For shooting and fishing the series Landy is the preferred option, often a 60s or 70s model.

As far as understanding the tech behind autonomous vehicles, I doubt I have less of a grasp than most.

We are what is known as 'early adopters' when it comes to tech. After all, I was part of the first generation to use personal computers at school. I am all for meaningful progress, but sometimes we are merely throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

No wanky little displaced pollution bubble car with a touch screen interface is going to replace my thundering horses and flatulent exhaust. I want to feel the buckets of ancient sea-life spewing through the inferno as I slam the throttle, and observe the embarrassment of the geek in his Euro pissbox with the 'rugged' plastic trim as his girlfriend gazes over and wets her gusset as my elephantine bonnet lifts, and the horses strain to contain themselves, or indeed keep on track as the squealing tractor size wheels struggle to gain purchase at ASDA roundabout. Yes, I almost lost it and sent us into the school janitor's vegetable patch, but that geek will remember this night as his girlfriend tugs him into bed and demands he turn off the light and shove DAVE on. The one with the classic Range Rover V8 review by Quentin Wilson. As she demands full performance, and pictures me putting the hammer down to achieve her climax, he will do his best, and after will come to realise what he needs is to trade that Euro shitbox in and get himself a real car. A man's car.

If there is an expert here, then all I would say is they are too close to the tech to give objective views.

From the responses I would also suggest the 'expert' does not understand much of what is being said, as he continually mistakes comment and opinion for some claim of knowledge and wastes time addressing irrelevant asides rather than providing any insight.

As far as being the men in white coats poking 'us' with a stick..

Let us all remember what the men in white coats were up to in Sweden in the not too distant past.

Bang on. Post of the week for me. Nothing beats a sonorous NA with plenty of horsepower and a Spanish gearbox. :mrgreen: And another thing, anybody ever notice that Prius drivers try to pull away like their a$$ is on fire ?

 

[dyna-ti]

So its a convoy of cars, with one driver at the front, drivers in the remaining, but only there for safety, and joined how ? radio controlled :? a set distance apart no doubt.

Couldn't they have just used a series of tow ropes ?.

 

[02gf74]

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People who have real money don't tend to give a toss what they drive, and can often be found driving Renault 4s and Pug 205s of ancient vintage. Astons and RRs might be in the garage, but the car they use to head down the village shop is usually a banger of some sort.

Yes, all you can accurately say about someone driving a 12 year old car is that the car they are driving is 12 years old and if they own the car, then the car they have purchased is 12 years old. One can only make educated guesses as to their wealth

No wanky little displaced pollution bubble car with a touch screen interface is going to replace my thundering horses and flatulent exhaust. I want to feel the buckets of ancient sea-life spewing through the inferno as I slam the throttle, and observe the embarrassment of the geek in his Euro pissbox with the 'rugged' plastic trim as his girlfriend gazes over and wets her gusset as my elephantine ....

Or the laydee may say, oh look at that dickhead, he must have a tiny willy. Take me home in your characterless eco friendky vegetabilist eurobox big boy.
Dont assume women think the same as men.

My 9 mile daily commute is mindless drudgery in stop start traffic. I dont like the thought of autonomouse cars but wont reject it until ive tried it. Talking of mice, who has seen the mega sized rat!! Foook


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[technodup]

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People who have real money don't tend to give a toss what they drive, and can often be found driving Renault 4s and Pug 205s of ancient vintage.

And again, old money of the type you allude to will not be the intended market. Fairly obviously.

FFS can you not see that at least at first this would be aimed at commuters, school run mums, potentially fleet buyers, i.e. short repetitive journeys in crowded cities? Your mainstream, run of the mill, £300/m PCP shiny new A3 on the drive type?

Hey Technodoubt, aren't you worried the schemies will whip your alloys?

I don't live in, or anywhere near a scheme.

Nothing beats a sonorous NA with plenty of horsepower and a Spanish gearbox.

A dying breed. I know **** all about cars but I do know size and cylinders are being reduced, turbos are used to make up the shortfall and the manual gearbox is on life support.

Some can't see what's in front of their nose.

 

[02gf74]

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A dying breed. I know f**k all about cars but I do know size and cylinders are being reduced, turbos are used to make up the shortfall and the manual gearbox is on life support.

it does appear to be so.

The average engine size of all licensed cars has now been falling for 3 years, following an earlier long term gradual increase, and then several years of little change. The overall average in 2012 was 1,735cc compared with 1,750cc in 2009. However, this overall average is affected by the fact that diesel engines tend to have a larger capacity than the equivalent petrol engines, and that the proportion of diesel cars in the stock is increasing. Looking at the two fuel types separately, it can be seen that the average engine size for each actually peaked several years earlier, in 2006 for petrol cars and 2007 for diesel, since when both have been falling.

see https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... s-2012.pdf

technodup and highlandsflyer - chill it!!!

 

[highlandsflyer]

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There is an enormous difference between seeing what is in front of your nose and liking the smell.

The only people using personal vehicles in city settings ought to be those who need to, regardless of how the are 'driven'.

My hope is for car free cities.

Meanwhile I am going to enjoy every minute behind the wheel.

 

[highlandsflyer]

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Or the laydee may say, oh look at that dickhead, he must have a tiny willy. Take me home in your characterless eco friendky vegetabilist eurobox big boy.
Dont assume women think the same as men.

I would assume one realised I was indulging in a little irony.

As a devoted husband, and erstwhile lover of many intelligent, highly desirable, women, I am well aware women don't even think like other women. They do all find me irresistible though. That is just the painful truth every man, and often female partners, have had to come to terms with.

 

[technodup]

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. Looking at the two fuel types separately, it can be seen that the average engine size for each actually peaked several years earlier, in 2006 for petrol cars and 2007 for diesel, since when both have been falling.

And now diesel is in the crosshairs that rate of reduction will increase.

My hope is for car free cities.

You think autonomous cars are pie in the sky but you want car free cities?

UK testing next year. Possible start in 2020. No legal barriers. £900 billion market worldwide. What else do you need to know?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britai ... KKCN0WE0HX

Highlandsflyer yesterday.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I titled the thread thusly, "Driverless Vehicles, Coming To A Road Near You Too Soon!"

How on earth could anyone interpret that as a denial of their imminence?

I also have more hair on my head than my arms.