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There was a joke about manual and automatic cars. With no disrespect to all who drive cars(I am not from them) here it goes:
"Ladies, if your boyfriend is driving an automatic, I have news for you: You have a girlfriend."
Sorry if this post comes directly from Leslie.
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Bring it on!
Down here in the glorious South East of the UK, I think I can say fairly safely that people drive like total ****ers. There's always some BMW about 60cm from the back of your car. Parking is a problem, finding a space and then opening the doors enough to get out once you've done that. Automatics are a good idea because it will prevent your left leg from dying of overuse in everyday traffic.
I've completely fallen out of love with driving (Sorry, Toyota), so the idea of an automated car - a private taxi that will ferry me around is hugely appealing. And as someone said, a car that can drive you to the pub then home again afterwards? Yes, yes, oh yes.
And despite concerns, I can't see it doing a worse job of navigating the roads than the typical 4x4 on the morning school run.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: always some BMW about 60cm from the back of your car
Only in thick fog: normally they are closer. 
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Quote: Only in thick fog: normally they are closer
FTFY: In thick fog they need to be closer so they can see your lights.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Rob Philpott wrote: always some BMW about 60cm from the back of your car
I found the perfect solution for that...Slow down - carefully - to walking speed at the very point it can't pass you by...Speed up if there is a possible bypass and slow down again if there is not...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Sound advice, and I do use a variant on that. It just ends up with both the car behind and myself getting frustrated at the speed then.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I have never pulled very slowly over so that the BMW can put his foot down and pass me gesticulating wildly.
And certainly I have never done it just as a police car was coming up the slip road... :EvilGrinSmiley:
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If I see police car I actually let him pass me and hit the horn hard at the very moment he is out on the opposite lane...In 99% of the cases the police pulls him over...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Sometimes, you have to be kind, to be cruel!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This, of course, is not vexatious: You need to add their "thinking distance" to your own as clearly they have no time to react, which invariably means you have to go slower. That's the reasoning excuse I use!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: vexatious
Is that an accusation?! Beware, my friend, or I will type slower, much slower!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not at all, I'm sure you're NEVER vexatious! 
... I'll just overtake (I can touch-type you know!)
... and I don't drive a BMW, I drive a Honda Insight (being as green as Kermit).
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Its just the same in Israel. I'd say that most Israeli drivers drive like lunatics, but I don't waant to insult the lunatics.
I would love an automated vehicle (a tank, by preference  )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You should try Quebec City. In some places the exit lanes on the highways start immediately after the entrance lanes and they have no concept of adjusting speed to join/leave AND they drive so close that you sometimes need a feeler gauge, not a tape rule, to measure the gap. Added to that, in winter 10' piles of snow piled right up to the corners of side-turnings, so they just close their eyes and pull out.
You need take speed to drive there and valium when you reach your destination.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If you get the tank - I have a driving license for that...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's a deal.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Its not for me as I wouldn't want to leave my life in the control of a computer on wheels when there are also other idiots on the road that aren't on a leash
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
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I think that's just initial suspicion. It was the same when .NET came out, I was convinced that the garbage collector was the work of the devil, but it turns out if can do the job much more reliably than I can.
This is why the trials will be so interesting. If people have confidence in the safety its just one less thing to do. You could sleep, read, watch TV, have breakfast, entertain the missus all on the way to work. Awesome. I'd like one with a bath in it.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Don't get me wrong I shall be watching the whole driver-less cars technology with great interest.
But after driving around Oxfordshire they take careless driving up a notch or 2 and that is the part that worries me, how could you evade an idiot who decided to run a roundabout because he was texting or running late? I have seen some people in Jags on the Morton in Marsh roundabouts tussle with a truck because they don't want to wait for it to turn right.
Rob Philpott wrote: I'd like one with a bath in it.
that would make an interesting drive especially all the hill that I would have to go up
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DLR anyone?
Autopilot on your 747?
FFS, real time decision processing is a pretty well understood concept within the spheres of computer science. Just do it, get going and put it in an all-electric car too!
veni bibi saltavi
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In knowing that man makes so much errors computer driven cars are a good idea.
"Test driven development" will get a new meaning.
Last but not least: I wont buy a car from or with Microsoft 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: wont buy a car from or with Microsoft
It would bring a new meaning to Blue Screen Of Death, certainly...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The blue screen of ARRRGHHH fireball.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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One little detail that people tend to want to ignore is that personal transport has reached ridiculous levels of wastage, both in resource usage and loss of life.
So yes, computerise it all, and take the prestige and sense of personal power out of driving. The world will be better for it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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