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The Future of Cars According to Toyota
Paulrothrock writes "HowStuffWorks has an interesting story about Toyota's concept, um, car, the PM. In addition to seating only one person and having its hubless wheels driven by electric motors, it incorporates wireless networking so that drivers could surrender control to another human-driven PM and relax as someone else drives them to work. And it reclines!"
(man driving a vintage Excursion hits bump in road) "Damn, what was that!"
(kid in the back seat) "Dad, I think that you just ran over the last two PMs in that row of 10 that just passed us.
It looks neat, but I get the impression that it's a coffin with a glass top held up at an angle.
What's the color ofThe grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
The last thing I need is for someone else in the car to tell me how to drive, and then demand that I "hand over" control.
Sheesh.
1337dR1V3r: i h8 this commute
70y074d00d: ya it sux0rz
1337dR1V3r: too long
1337dR1V3r: i got a big ppt prez to give to 54L3z in 30 min
70y074d00d: haha 54L3z l4m3rz sux
70y074d00d: 4cc0un71nG rulez
1337dR1V3r: omfg lag
70y074d00d: i no
70y074d00d: im slow too
70y074d00d: net sux 2day
70y074d00d: dr1v3r
70y074d00d: j00 there
70y074d00d: hello
*** 1337dR1V3r has left channel
70y074d00d: oh fuX0r
*** 70y074d00d has left channel
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Anyone remember that old joke that was floating around the Internet, what would happen if the car industry followed the growth of computers? I think that fear has just been realized. Thanks Toyota!
Hmmm.
Wireless networking and remote administration enabled? I think wardriving just gained a whole new meaning.
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Thank you.
I had one of these when I was a kid! Except control wasn't wireless, it was manual. Oh yeah...and we called it a "stroller."
Steve Urkel
Does it turn into a cannoli?
"I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines." - Mr. Furious, Mystery Men
All they left out are the spine plugs.
> it incorporates wireless networking so that
> drivers could surrender control to another
> human-driven PM and relax as someone else drives
> them to work. And it reclines!
All that remains is to hook these units together and run them on fixed guideways. Let's see - need a new word for that - how about..... "Train". Yeah, that sounds funky and new!
sPh
Another job that can be done from home, taxi driver.
Never thought i'd see the day...
At least cabbies can stop showeri.... wait a minute..
So how do I get my two toddlers to the grocery store?
What breakfast food does this most resemble: Hummer IV meets PM?
What about poor wireless reception or active radio jamming?
To start it, do you pull it back in your driveway until the spring catches?
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Photoshop this Toyota PM. Difficulty: no baby strollers.
More music, fewer hits
When people start driving cars that look like a giant cellphone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know the real reason for that is to allow the Bush Thought Police to apprehend anybody they want at any time and drive them to secret concentration camps for liquidation. The fact that Americans are so brainwashed is Truly Scary.
Sorry
In Soviet Russia, car drives you!
So, if I crash someone's car driving it remotely, am I liable? Does my insurance go up? Will hackers be the wireless car thieves of the future?
It Is the Nature of Information to Transgress Artificial Boundaries
And what do you do when people mistake you for a giant Aibo?
Have you PM mount their car and give the chassis a little dry-hump?
In addition to seating only one person and having its hubless wheels driven by electric motors, it incorporates wireless networking so that drivers could surrender control to another human-driven PM and relax as someone else drives them to work. And it reclines!
And what else seats only one person, reclines, and is driven by someone else? Why, you guessed it... it's the new joint venture between Toyota and Apple... the iStroller.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Judging from the horrific comments that everyone on /. has about this new product, and how right the /. community has been about products.. (ipod mini comes to mind). This will make Toyota billions!
It looks like an egg on wheels!
Phone rings:
It's Mindy, Mork want's his car back!
Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
Good thing it's a single seater!
Be careful, you could go blind...
Hooptie
"Heavens, it appears that my weewee has been stricken with rigor mortis!" -- Stewie Griffin
for Post Mortem, cuz this thing will be dead on arrival
Geez...
just imagine...
a mom driving her kids around, each with their own bubble on wheels, with a caboose for cargo.
it's like a cross between a line of ducks behind their mom and a train.
i'm sold
All your car are belong to us?
Let's go Hurricanes!!! 2006 Stanley Cup Champions!!!
the sport version for women...yes, I mean the PM-S
I can see the ad campaign: Is it road rage...or just PM-S?
Did you know you can be apathetic to apathy? Not that I give a shit...
Maybe people will start driving a bit more carefully if this is the case. ABS, seatbelts, airbags - I bet the one thing that'd improve road safety more than any of those is a 6-inch spike sticking out the steering wheel towards the driver!
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Wannabe clowns are having a field day today!
Anybody else think that thing looks like an i-Mac on wheels?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
I would be worried about the possibility of someone deliberately interfering with my car. This could take war driving to a whole new level.
That I can now offshore my driving?