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Old February 13th 18, 11:20 PM posted to alt.astronomy
Bast[_2_]
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Default It is finally the 21st century and there will be flying cars.



Double-A wrote:
On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:33:19 PM UTC-8, Daniel60 wrote:
Bast wrote:
Daniel60 wrote:
Mark Earnest wrote:
On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 2:33:09 PM UTC-6, Hägar wrote:
"Mark Earnest" wrote in message


They will be like the flying cars in some of the Star Wars
episodes. You get into your car program it where you want to go
and it takes
you there. *** as long as they don't allow women to get a license
to operate them ... they may be involved in less accidents than
men, but they cause three times as many.

No one needs a license, no one drives. You just tell it where to go
and it takes you there.
Last week, I was watching an episode of "The Last Leg" featuring
Stephen Fry as the guest.

Stephen mentioned an incident in an "robot" car, where the driver
said "Hey, look at this!!" and let go of the steering wheel.

Things went O.K. until they were on a piece of roadway which had a
concrete centre divide, and the road curved .... and the driver
freeked out and took manual control before the car ran into the
centre divide.

Seems there might still be some bugs to iron out before "we" can go
"hands free"!!

More to think about is that when the driverless drone cars do go bad.
It's fairly unlikely that there will be any survivors to tell the
tale, and the cause will be officially listed as "driver error".

Yeap!! Well, it was the driver that choose to switch on the
Auto-pilot!!

I wonder if it will get to be like here in Australia where a Licensed
Driver supervising a Learner Driver has to be under the Alcohol Limit
as well!!

So you couldn't go out for a good night on the "turps" and then just
put the car into "auto-pilot" and away you go!!

--
Daniel



Well I heard that GM is starting to make self-driving cars with no
brake pedals and no steering wheels! So in that case there will be no
back up driver!

Double-A






I hope people that buy it get the optional casket bars mounted on both
sides.
Then the wrecker can just bring it right to the cemetary.