OT: Car Porn

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flyer][quote=FlyerInHi][quote=scaredyclassic]Cars leave me cold. But photos of expensive watches get me hot.[/quote]

I used to like cars… but now they leave me cold. In fact, I wish that Google driverless cars could already take us everywhere.

I think I’m getting old. I feel cold at most things these days.

My goal now is to build a real estate portfolio of condos in different cities so that I can live anywhere I wish. But even that leaves me cold.[/quote]

It’s true that most “stuff” can eventually leave one “cold,” when the novelty wears off. That’s our human nature, and why every successful company has an ace marketing department to remind us that we need to buy something new in order to transcend this world and feel better. Some of the car ads are extremely amusing on this level.

As far as cars go–I like cars. Some are fun to drive; most have a utilitarian purpose, etc.–but, for me, they don’t feed my soul like family, friends and other things do–nor would I expect them to.[/quote]

Experiences, not things

[svelte]

“Experiences, not things”

Says the man lusting after an expensive watch.

cars are something you either get or you dont.

No worries either way!

[scaredyclassic]

I was trying to remind myself.

Although I recently got a gorgeous watch and it is amazing. I love it!

Makes experiences better. Makes me feel awesome

[FlyerInHi]

I’m excited about self-drive cars. Hope to get one in my lifetime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/driverless-vehicles-even-in-dc-streets-an-autonomous-car-takes-a-capitol-test-run/2014/08/25/6d26baa8-06a4-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/25/how-to-teach-right-and-wrong-to-self-driving-cars/

[Coronita]

[quote=FlyerInHi]I’m excited about self-drive cars. Hope to get one in my lifetime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/driverless-vehicles-even-in-dc-streets-an-autonomous-car-takes-a-capitol-test-run/2014/08/25/6d26baa8-06a4-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/25/how-to-teach-right-and-wrong-to-self-driving-cars/%5B/quote%5D

I would never be caught dead using a self driving car.

[svelte]

[quote=scaredyclassic]I was trying to remind myself.

Although I recently got a gorgeous watch and it is amazing. I love it!

Makes experiences better. Makes me feel awesome[/quote]

Congrats man! Do what you enjoy in life!

[svelte]

[quote=flu]

I would never be caught dead using a self driving car.[/quote]

I would never get caught drunk if I were using a self driving car.

THaT’s the big draw for me. 🙂

I’d use it every Sat night…

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]I was trying to remind myself.

Although I recently got a gorgeous watch and it is amazing. I love it!

Makes experiences better. Makes me feel awesome[/quote]

Congrats man! Do what you enjoy in life![/quote]

i kind of swagger around with this nice hunk of fine metal on my wrist. i need a strap to complement. the metal bracelet just isnt doing it for me. Luckily there’s a whole industry of premium leather custom watch strap makers just for people like me! trulywe are lviing in the golden age of such goods.

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte][quote=flu]

I would never be caught dead using a self driving car.[/quote]

I would never get caught drunk if I were using a self driving car.

THaT’s the big draw for me. 🙂

I’d use it every Sat night…[/quote]

Except if you read the fine print on the laws… these driverless cars still require a driver to take control if needed…

[svelte]

[quote=flu][quote=svelte]

THaT’s the big draw for me. 🙂

I’d use it every Sat night…[/quote]

Except if you read the fine print on the laws… these driverless cars still require a driver to take control if needed…[/quote]

I expect that to change as driverless cars become better and more accepted.

With the state of the technology right now, I agree with the law.

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte][quote=flu][quote=svelte]

THaT’s the big draw for me. 🙂

I’d use it every Sat night…[/quote]

Except if you read the fine print on the laws… these driverless cars still require a driver to take control if needed…[/quote]

I expect that to change as driverless cars become better and more accepted.

With the state of the technology right now, I agree with the law.[/quote]

I wouldn’t trust my life with autonomous car.

You know, I would not want to entrust an autonomous car with it’s decision making process if there is an unavoidable accident between you (with your kid in a passenger car) and the other car (with 5 people in it). The last thing I would want is for the car to take me off the road and kill me and my kid, simply because the algorithm was programmed in such a way to preserve as many lives as possible, even if the other car is driving in the wrong direction or driving recklessly…

[Coronita]

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[an]

[quote=flu]I wouldn’t trust my life with autonomous car.

You know, I would not want to entrust an autonomous car with it’s decision making process if there is an unavoidable accident between you (with your kid in a passenger car) and the other car (with 5 people in it). The last thing I would want is for the car to take me off the road and kill me and my kid, simply because the algorithm was programmed in such a way to preserve as many lives as possible, even if the other car is driving in the wrong direction or driving recklessly…[/quote]Exactly. There’s NO WAY to program a computer to think and make split decision like a human. It doesn’t matter how many generation is passed. Everybody make decision different based on the same facts. That’s due to their own priorities and past experiences. These are the factors that the computer just do not have. The example flu gave is one such example. Someone else who don’t care as much about their own lives would gladly take themselves off the road.

[spdrun]

Yeah, legal liability would be the biggest obstacle. But what about this? Limit autonomous cars to 20-25 mph, a speed where most crashes are survivable.

Have an automated network of medium speed (read: 80-100 mph) electrified rail transit (that won’t interact with other people/cars as much and is confined to a fixed track, so isn’t as prone to crashing) for longer trips between cities. If the vehicles don’t need conductors and engine drivers, they become much cheaper to run, and thus can be smaller and more frequent. You should be able to reserve an autonomous car that would pick you up at the other end…

Or the other option is self-driving cars that can drive onto a guideway and be separate from traffic AND collect power for longer distances. But that comes with the problem of not being able to move around much within the vehicle, unlike a larger train-like vehicle where you can get up, pee, buy a sandwich, etc.

Basically, go back to the horse/buggy and train paradigm that prevailed till the early 1900s. Except with much faster/more frequent trains and air travel to link more distant points.

[The-Shoveler]

All you need to do is design it with strong sense of self-preservation,

hmm on second thought it may decide that if you turn it off then that would be a threat, or maybe you would want to junk it and get a new one and that would be a possible threat, so maybe it would remove your seat belt and open the door while making sharp turn at high speed. Then get with the fuel Bot to keep refueled.

OK maybe this is not such a good Idea this AI stuff.

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