I don't know what to make of this.... what do you guys think?
http://gizmodo.com/#!5775987/the-view-from-googles-self+driving-car-cockpit (http://gizmodo.com/#!5775987/the-view-from-googles-self+driving-car-cockpit)
Quote from: uclabiker06 on March 04, 2011, 08:45:56 AM
I don't know what to make of this.... what do you guys think?
http://gizmodo.com/#!5775987/the-view-from-googles-self+driving-car-cockpit (http://gizmodo.com/#!5775987/the-view-from-googles-self+driving-car-cockpit)
Anyone else find it ironic that they use a Toyota as a base. I thought toyotas were already self driving. Self-accelerating at the very least.
Quote from: El Matador on March 04, 2011, 08:56:43 AM
Anyone else find it ironic that they use a Toyota as a base. I thought toyotas were already self driving. Self-accelerating at the very least.
[laugh]
The Hoff still did it better:
(http://www.ridelust.com/wp-content/uploads/aa_1982_pontiac_firebird_trans_am_knight_rider.jpg)
[coffee]
Eventually this could kill off the DUI/DWI Industry
Quote from: RAT900 on March 04, 2011, 09:38:18 AM
Eventually this could kill off the DUI/DWI Industry
They'll figure a way to replace the income.
They always do.
I don't even like cars that aren't manual much less self driving
Quote from: Turf on March 04, 2011, 10:43:50 AM
I don't even like cars that aren't manual much less self driving
Ahmen to that!!
I'll take personal competence over technology any day
Similar topic and very cool tech is the Great Robot Race: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/)
As an individual who used to work for Google, I can both admire the fact that this technology was brought about as a love affair with several employees, and making weird crap that no one else wanted to waste financial resources on that the company has no issues spending money on, and yet at the same time, tell you with the greatest resolve that there is no way on this Green Earth, that I would ever trust my life with something a Googler dreamed up and put together in their spare time, that then turned into a under-funded project, that then got media attention, and had its budget ramped up, and taken out of the hands of the intelligent people that first started it, and ultimately, put into the hands of people who just want bigger bonus', and are major suck ups.
Sorry for the run on sentence.
BC.
...you mean like this Google Earth bike:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2598/3878301166_6835b6267e.jpg)
[laugh]
If all self driving cars drove that fast around a parking lot, sign me up. That looked like a blast.
*knock* *knock*
Cop: License and registration, and why are you driving so recklessly?
Passenger: Umm i think my car had some premium and is a bit drunk. And I don't know where my car keeps his/her drivers license.
At least it will leave both hands free for holding your beer and cigarettes. [evil]
Quote from: hooligan machinist on March 04, 2011, 08:43:52 PM
At least it will leave both hands free for holding your beer and cigarettes. [evil]
But I don't smoke... What am I supposed to do with that other hand? ???
AHA! :D
(http://sportige.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Al-Bundy.jpg)
Awww, yeah. ;D
Or masturbate. That will definately get you noticed in traffic. [cheeky]
Quote from: hooligan machinist on March 04, 2011, 09:39:49 PM
Or masturbate. That will definately get you noticed in traffic. [cheeky]
If you have ever sat in bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic on the Long Island Expressway you would gain a revulsive appreciation for just how many cretins are alone in their cars rubbing one out.....which I suppose is entirely their business
except that I am convinced that 3/4's of the rear-end accidents in 2-3 mph traffic are a result of someone looking at their roof liner while spooging on their steering wheel
When I was a daily commuter on the LI Rail Road...a lot of these solo drivers would use mass-transit during bad winter weather....referred to them as "snowbirds"....
they sometimes would forget they were not alone in their cars and would absent-mindedly start fondling themselves in the seat next to you, or farting loudly, picking their noses and eating it and so on....
I used to daydream that the true destination for those trains should have been an extermination camp rather than Penn Station...
the species would have improved from it
the FUN...the FUN............
.....Where's the FUN !
Dolph (http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn198/DoubleEagle_photo/pimp.gif)
Quote from: RAT900 on March 04, 2011, 10:37:12 PM
If you have ever sat in bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic on the Long Island Expressway you would gain a revulsive appreciation for just how many cretins are alone in their cars rubbing one out.....which I suppose is entirely their business
except that I am convinced that 3/4's of the rear-end accidents in 2-3 mph traffic are a result of someone looking at their roof liner while spooging on their steering wheel
When I was a daily commuter on the LI Rail Road...a lot of these solo drivers would use mass-transit during bad winter weather....referred to them as "snowbirds"....
they sometimes would forget they were not alone in their cars and would absent-mindedly start fondling themselves in the seat next to you, or farting loudly, picking their noses and eating it and so on....
I used to daydream that the true destination for those trains should have been an extermination camp rather than Penn Station...
the species would have improved from it
yup I see all sorts of dopes behind the wheel, there have even been sightings of a guy who is in our office driving along with the newspaper spread open on top of the steering wheel while traveling at high rates.
I get a kick out of people who drive with their feet hanging out the window or on their dashboard, while that seems to be predominately just passengers I have seen driver's somehow contort their bodies into a position to allow that. That'd make for for a mess in an accident.
or the ones who do "the Jersey lean"....slouched over into the middle of the front seat so far that a driver side airbag deployment would miss them
Quote from: RAT900 on March 05, 2011, 07:08:24 AM
or the ones who do "the Jersey lean"....slouched over into the middle of the front seat so far that a driver side airbag deployment would miss them
never have gotten how that could possibly be comfortable
I'm not really a fan of being in the car with someone else driving much less no one driving. I actually like driving. Well as long as traffic is moving. :) :)
Haha, yes that is ironic that its a toyota. Interesting comment about the DUI's. BTW, I switched the original link... the art of driving is going to be lost forever with all these computers. I guess cars are slowly turning into robots? I mean if it drives itself then...
Quote from: DoubleEagle on March 05, 2011, 02:10:18 AM
the FUN...the FUN............
.....Where's the FUN !
Dolph (http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn198/DoubleEagle_photo/pimp.gif)
The fun is I can smoke a bowl, while the car parks itself in front of the Club. :D
It's finally starting to happen.
The Jetsons "Alternate" Opening **Full Version** (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBqYcGqaaw&feature=related#normal)
Now where's my jet pack?
If I am going to ride in a autonomous vehicle, I want to be in Terramax
DARPA Urban Challenge - OshKosh in traffic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGk6cx2VCkg#normal)
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