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Vehicles of Tomorrow?
Human Factors Guy writes "We've seen here before car manufacturers putting more and more technology into cars, but what are the cars of tomorrow going to look like? Driver monitoring through head and eye tracking (which Volvo is already
implementing), Adaptive
Cruise Control systems, maybe even pedestrian recognition systems. With
cars becoming more like semi-intelligent robots every year, what do /. readers think will and won't make it?"
has been around for over 100 years- it's called a bicycle
but they keep coming up with great improvements on the awesome machine.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Improbablity drive powered space ships!
I like muppets.
This is for targeting...right?
Jon Bardin
Flying Cars.
Cars of tomorrow are going to be as disposible as cell phones.
Is that they'd get the turn signal thing fixed. Seems like 80% of the vehicles here in Seattle don't even have them.
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Blaze a trail to the New World
Last summer, I saw a guy talking on a cel phone while riding a bike. What call is so bloody important that you can't pull over or take it later?
-paul
Pistol caliber is like religion: everyone has their favourite, and theirs is the only right choice.
For the love of God/Budda/Ra, no flying cars. Fools can't handle 2D, much less 3D.
I for one want to welcome our new semi-intelligent robot car overlords...
(still beats the less than intelligent polititans..
Is that they need to fix the loose nut behind the wheel in most cars.
until they tighten restriction on getting nad maintaining a drivers license things will get worse.
it's a privilige people, not a right, and you most certianly do not have the right to endanger others because you get your jollies from driving recklessly.
idiot next to me who's eating cereal and reading the paper while driving ... all those types of folks can do that safely if we get robot cars!
They are already in robot cars. You need to upgrade.
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Honestly, the technology exists right now to automatically drive my car along a freeway. I could probably set this up today with a few thousand dollars in hardware and a lot of code.
You should do it. I suggest naming it the Computerized Road Automated Steering Helpbot.
What I'd like to see in the vehicles of tomorrow are better drivers.
Speak truth to power.
Even horses pollute (ie poop on the road & farts), so I don't see why a vehicle could be held to a similar standard. Unless it's a female horse, because as we all know, girls don't fart.
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On the subject of "pedestrian recognition systems," I'm reminded of something my dad once said while trying to teach me to drive.
"When you feel a bump, stop."
At the time, he was referring to concrete parking separators, but I think it reflected a more general approach.
Can't you even manage a drive-by shooting without an aimbot?
Why would you need to have pedestrian recognition systems?
Automatic point assignment.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Even larger cupholders.
I'm still waiting for foam to fill the car when you have an accident... Sandra is hot.
Foam? Foam? Fuck that, I'd want hot grits!!!
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
...it's the twenty-first century and I still don't have my flying car and I still don't have my rocket belt.
Why bother asking what the vehicles of the future are going to look like; we still don't have the vehicles of yesterday's future!
And done so many times that people aren't even just beating a dead horse. Rather, the horse rotted away ages ago and they're now just beating the idea and ghost of a dead horse.
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The automobiles of the future will look like trees, because, based on how little road building is taking place, they won't be able to move anyway. So they may as well look good sitting there.
I might be interested. Is there a water bed and a mirror ball in the back?
because my double decker 3-foot erector set wing just isn't big enough sometimes
add to that list:
brighter neon
louder steros
larger exhaust pipes
louder exhaust pipes
a wider range of stickers
bigger uglier rims... spinners and lights were a good start, but how about embedded video screens, or ultrashiny chrome that blinds other drivers?
more places to stick useless video screens (see above)
brighter, more obnoxious colors
larger body kits, with more of that panel-gap appearance that looks so good
did i miss anything?
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
I thought for a second about how cool it would be to have my car turn wherever I looked, until I realized that the girls who like to jog around where I live would make this a dangerous technology.
Synergy is your friend
Unless there's some really radical new method of powering vehicals
Can you spell NUCELAR?
(yes, it's a joke)
^^
Reminds me of the Onion article, "New Ford SUV holds eight passengers and their SUVs." ;)
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Yes, and let's put the ignition timing control back on the steering column where it belongs. And do away with engine driven oil pumps and get back to the good old manual system. Windshield wipers should be hand-operated. Hand-cranked engines would make us think twice about driving that kid to the soccer game. And balloon tires; nothing like a good front wheel blowout to hone those emergency driving skills.
No need to signal.
Why should you exert yourself?
I can read your mind.
--Pamela Menter
Due to the new technology, the accidental run-over rate for cute young ladies wearing mini-skirts and tube tops will rise dramatically.
Geez, for about 1/4 of the cost, you could just have penis-enlargement surgery, and be done with it!
On another note, check out the possible 25th anniversary DeLorean!
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas"
Sen. Davy Crocket to US Congress, Nov. 1, 1835
It's not FUNNY. It's INTERESTING or INFORMATIVE, or that other word I cannot spell properly (insightfull?)
can't forget the wonders that 'Design for Manufacturability' has brought us:
pull engine to replace distributer (old Fiero)
remove front-end to replace blinker-bulb (Dynasty)
installing a new sterio/automatic starter requires installing a new dashboard (Saturn)
et cetera.