Are you worried that people are forgetting what it means to drive?
Does the Prius in front of you slow down for every corner, even when there's no corner?
When you tell people you LIKE driving a stick, do they look at you funny?
Do you have to look at car nameplates more and more to tell what they are?
Do you wonder why a car needs Bluetooth?
Is that your trouble, Bunky?
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Guess its better than a Medicare scooter. Was in UK couple years ago and saw a Smart Car Roadster. I hate Smart Cars - they are too small, too slow, too ugly, too expensive and not that great on gas. The Roadster could change my mine - no idea of pricing.
I hate Smart Cars - they are too small, too slow, too ugly, too expensive and not that great on gas. The Roadster could change my mine - no idea of pricing.
Sounds like they were half decent car toys, if not real sports cars (and this is, after all, a forum about car toys), and they cost less than a Miata, but they apparently went out of production after some build problems.
Even Clarkson liked them, sort of.
Love bluetooth. Don't leave home without it. Agree with everything else. These cars are the epitome of "driving."
Three day weekend for me. Heading for the mountains and my house in Charlottesville VA. Meeting a guy name Paul Fowler who has a 2013 IM Suby Type D. He's from Australia with a second home in White Hall VA near Crozet. His car is silver with red interior, my favorite. Doing the vineyard thing with the wives. Should be fun. Sorry to get off subject. But yes are cars are AWESOME.
Bluetooth???? I'm still using razor flip phone. I've wrapped the battery to the body with 100 mph tape, it keeps falling out.. Tight budget here.
The best thing about self driving cars is that, for them to work, the software company/car mfg will have to know your location, direction and velocity at all times, to within an few inches. That's 'merica!
The second best thing about the whole concept is that, for it to work at scale, the roads will have to be retro-fitted and/or redesigned with a sensor system that will communicate with all the cars, so instead of, say, stopping at stop signs and red lights at intersections, the software that is driving your car will communicate with the road management software that gets feeds from all the other cars so that you will speed through the intersection even while crossing traffic does the same, everything meshed-up nice and tidy.
Of course, for this to work, they will have to ban all human-piloted vehicles that don't have the necessary sensors and software.
That, friends, is where the real fun will begin.
So, not long before we'll see headlines like:
Computer Virus Causes Massive Pileup on I-5
Couple Starves To Death Trapped In New Jersey Traffic Circle
Apple Says New Power Cable Won't Work On iCar 3.0 And Earlier
