(04-13-2021, 06:04 PM)Boudica Wrote:

(04-12-2021, 11:31 PM)demonboy Wrote:

(04-12-2021, 08:28 PM)Boudica Wrote: I don't think we will ever totally lose the steering wheel, no matter how advanced self-driving/autonomous systems get. Currently, there is still a lot of (understandable) distrust for self-driving machines. Especially considering they're actually illegal on many roads around the globe. However, even when we are at a point where they become vastly safer than a human driving, humans are never going to stop driving, I think. People still race and ride horses, despite not needing them for the last 100 years for transport. People find a rush in racing and driving. I'll give you another example: The automatic car vs the manual. Many people still buy manual cars because they enjoy the feeling of driving them.

We wont completely veer away from driving our own cars. At least not soon. People are growing lazier and lazier in the US by the second. I really wouldn’t be surprised if we basically turn into the episode of Black Mirror (15,000,000 Merits)

Ha! Good reference! It's easy to imagine how some Black Mirror episodes are uncomfortably likely.

(04-13-2021, 02:55 AM)demonboy Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 02:53 AM)astrogen Wrote: Yeah, that's the thing my country doesn't fully have yet.

I wish we could travel in tubes like Futurama and just scoop and shoot everywhere we go Lol.

They are developing something somewhat similar to that... Not quite individual pods, but here:

(04-12-2021, 10:59 PM)ballsinmyface445 Wrote: aint no way in hell can you convince me to hop in one of those

(04-13-2021, 10:42 PM)Dismas Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 06:04 PM)Boudica Wrote:

(04-12-2021, 11:31 PM)demonboy Wrote: We wont completely veer away from driving our own cars. At least not soon. People are growing lazier and lazier in the US by the second. I really wouldn’t be surprised if we basically turn into the episode of Black Mirror (15,000,000 Merits)

Ha! Good reference! It's easy to imagine how some Black Mirror episodes are uncomfortably likely.

(04-13-2021, 02:55 AM)demonboy Wrote: I wish we could travel in tubes like Futurama and just scoop and shoot everywhere we go Lol.

They are developing something somewhat similar to that... Not quite individual pods, but here:

600mph death tube.

(04-14-2021, 10:45 AM)mothered Wrote:

(04-12-2021, 10:59 PM)ballsinmyface445 Wrote: aint no way in hell can you convince me to hop in one of those

This ^

I'm certainly not keen to have my life In control of a technological/electronic device.

(04-14-2021, 06:11 PM)Boudica Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 10:42 PM)Dismas Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 06:04 PM)Boudica Wrote: Ha! Good reference! It's easy to imagine how some Black Mirror episodes are uncomfortably likely.


They are developing something somewhat similar to that... Not quite individual pods, but here:

600mph death tube.

(04-14-2021, 10:45 AM)mothered Wrote:

(04-12-2021, 10:59 PM)ballsinmyface445 Wrote: aint no way in hell can you convince me to hop in one of those

This ^

I'm certainly not keen to have my life In control of a technological/electronic device.

I feel like people said the same about cars/planes once upon a time xD I can understand, though!

(04-14-2021, 06:34 PM)demonboy Wrote:

(04-14-2021, 06:11 PM)Boudica Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 10:42 PM)Dismas Wrote: 600mph death tube.

(04-14-2021, 10:45 AM)mothered Wrote: This ^

I'm certainly not keen to have my life In control of a technological/electronic device.

I feel like people said the same about cars/planes once upon a time xD I can understand, though!

Oh yeah do you remember back to the future 3? When the professor got drunk and started telling everyone about “automated carriages” and they laughed at him.

(04-14-2021, 07:00 PM)Skullmeat Wrote: IRL Johnny Cab. Too bad they dont have Arnie.

(04-14-2021, 06:11 PM)Boudica Wrote: I feel like people said the same about cars/planes once upon a time xD

(04-14-2021, 06:11 PM)Boudica Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 10:42 PM)Dismas Wrote:

(04-13-2021, 06:04 PM)Boudica Wrote: Ha! Good reference! It's easy to imagine how some Black Mirror episodes are uncomfortably likely.


They are developing something somewhat similar to that... Not quite individual pods, but here:

600mph death tube.

(04-14-2021, 10:45 AM)mothered Wrote:

(04-12-2021, 10:59 PM)ballsinmyface445 Wrote: aint no way in hell can you convince me to hop in one of those

This ^

I'm certainly not keen to have my life In control of a technological/electronic device.

I feel like people said the same about cars/planes once upon a time xD I can understand, though!

(04-16-2021, 02:37 AM)Dismas Wrote: At one point, cars and planes were extremely unsafe too.