Over there on FaceBook, there has been some discussion about self driving cars, and would you or wouldn't you go w/ that. Well here is a bit that might be interesting. These Google guys really are out of their minds. Crazy like a fox. Anyway, how about this?:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LSZPNwZex9s
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I would not want a self-driving car. I drive a lot of times for the fun of driving. Being an observer is no fun.
As for the bike: It's an early April Fools joke. At the end of the video clip it said, "Only Available on April 1st".
Love it. That was great!
Hilarious.
At first I thought "what a stupid idea"
And then I thought, "I was right the first time" 
April Fools!
And I'll drive a "self driving" car when the last real car on earth has rusted away and been buried...
Hah! Love it! I wonder how they did that.
Lane Anderson posted:Hah! Love it! I wonder how they did that.
Google shows us how they did it.
Robert M posted:Lane Anderson posted:Hah! Love it! I wonder how they did that.
Google shows us how they did it.
I'm taking this video to the local bike shop and try to get them to order one...should be funny. I once had my wife call the local tool rental company to see if they had an electric shovel, she called and it was so funny! I crack myself up sometimes...
In Hawaii too 
.... I drove a P Macan GTS the other week with lane correction technology.. I did not steer for many miles then I decided to try to cross the lane to say avoid something ... well I had to fight the car steering wheel to do so and I did not like the feeling at all.
It's my observation that pot holes open up where the most tires run. A self driving car will hit every one. Also, driving and texting will become not observing and texting.
In a way, this is a debate that's been raging since some wise guy figured out a way to have cars set their own spark advance automatically as you drive.
Why would you want some unreliable gizmo doing that when you can set your own advance just where you want it right from the steering wheel?
And then they had to screw up everything with these damned synchromesh transmisiions. Dadblammit, I'm not letting some stupid 'convenience' feature do stuff any skilled driver should know how to do! Are we mice or men?
For some, cars have always been just a way to get somewhere - living rooms that move. While for a lot us, driving isn't a chore, it's a skill - something that's fun to do well.
Neither camp has ever really understood the other. The 'drivers' are always seen as nutball curmudgeons desperately clinging to anything 'old fashioned' out of fear of change and mainly just to be difficult.
If you like grabbing a rough-edged, snorting old beast of a machine and flogging it down some narrow little road with blind corners, hills that follow the lay of the land, and twists that make you shift gears just to stay on the torque curve, by all means get out there and do that today.
While you still can.
It's that last bit that scares me. 
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Pretty funny, but true
