hubgearfreak wrote:the driverless car of the future will allow the commuter several advantages.
1. it will mean that one is not limited to the distance of his commute...one will be able to live in say york and work in london and sleep on the way.
2. when the car gets to london, instead of having to pay parking it can simply drive itself around for 8 hours
3. the car may even be big enough to have an exercise bike in it, or a treadmill, or both - like a mobile gym. allowing one to do some excercise whilst getting to work. ooh, the brilliance of technology.
4. the only problem i can see is when children leave school and cross the road in a not-really-paying-attention manner. currently human operated cars simply blast their horn, accelerate at the errant youth forcing him to jog thus maintaining traffic flow. one assumes that driverless cars will not be able to do this and thus traffic could come to a stop for an hour every morning and every evening whilst bored teeenagers test the stopping powers of the new tech.
1. Good idea - and maybe we could join a lot of them together sort of one behind the other to reduce wind resistance. Maybe make a special road with little other traffic and fairly level with cuttings, embankments and tunnels so they don't waste fuel going up and down hills....
2. Another good idea - the fuel costs definitely less than London parking charges.
3. Do you think they'd really want that - what about ashtrays and fag dispensers....
4. Nice to know the new things will provide hours of innocent amusement for all the young folk with nowt to do because machines are doing everything...
'Give me my bike, a bit of sunshine - and a stop-off for a lunchtime pint - and I'm a happy man.' - Reg Baker