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The Future of the Car

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-about-rockets dept.

Gandul writes "Radar, lasers, wireless radio networks and other embedded tech will enable our cars to sense faraway traffic and stop accidents before they happen. But who will be in the driver's seat?"

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  1. Future Intelligent Car Says: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Help! Help! It burns!

  2. Duh? by cbrocious · · Score: 5, Funny

    But who will be in the driver's seat?

    Whoever's driving the car, duh.

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    1. Re:Duh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Except in England and Japan. Over there, the passenger sits in the driver's seat.

    2. Re:Duh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      our kids

      You'd have to get laid first. Since you're posting on slashdot on a friday night, I'd say this is pretty much a non-issue.

      PS: I am posting this while making love to many beautiful European ladies and reading up on the next absurdly elaborate and expensive sports car I'll be buying. Since the probability of one person as awesome as myself reading slashdot is as close to zero as possible, it's safe to assume that you are my inferior, and therefore fair game for my petty jabs.

    3. Re:Duh? by wattersa · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Except in England and Japan. Over there, the passenger sits in the driver's seat.

      Intelligence shows that in an unspecified Eastern European country, the car rides on the driver. Reports that this unnamed country is Soviet Russia are unconfirmed. Details at 11.

  3. I just got one question by jockm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where is my flying car? It is the 21st century and we were promised flying cars. Where are they?

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    1. Re:I just got one question by oneiros27 · · Score: 2, Funny
      What are you willing to give for the flying car?
      http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html
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    2. Re:I just got one question by HangingChad · · Score: 2, Funny
      Where is my flying car?

      I used to want a flying car. Then started looking around at how some of the dipshits we have around here drive on the ground. Then imagine all those assholes with flying cars. They'd be chasing flocks of geese trying to reach out and grab one, buzzing people's houses, cutting across controlled traffic flight patterns. No thanks. It's dangerous enough with those retards on the ground.

      Unless it's strictly auto-pilot. Then the most damage they could do is flying is drinking beer and jerking off. A horror for anyone passing them but not a danger to anything but the inside of their own vehicle.

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  4. drivers seat by convolvatron · · Score: 4, Funny

    my genetically engineered chauffeur-lemur

    duh

  5. But who will be in the driver's seat? by craXORjack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big Brother, of course.

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  6. Re:Flamebait? wtf? by borg · · Score: 5, Funny

    uh, excuse me sir.

    but wouldn't a driver who drove wrecklessly not be in an accident?

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  7. Re:Who will be driving? by Apotsy · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wouldn't have one of these new cars that you can't work on without $100,000 car-o-scope and a PHD..
    Oh boy! This old chestnut. What's the matter, $49 for an OBD II reader too much for you? Four buttons too many to figure out?
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  8. But who will be in the driver's seat? by mpaque · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why, Clippy, of course.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/getstart/devpla t/winauto/default.aspx

    Clippy: "I see that you are attempting to apply the brakes. The Microsoft Brakes 2006 feature is not currently Installed. Please insert Microsoft Automotive Disk #7 in order to Install Microsoft Brakes 2006."

    What? You'd prefer a "Johnny Cab?"

  9. Re:Hopefully not people by Max_Wells_SH · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd rather have robots drive.

    I'd rather not have to put up with them when they've put me 200 km off course and six hours late, and I'm pulled over with the hood up, trying to fix the damn thing:

    CLS: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?...Dave... I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question...I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be alright again...I feel much better now, I really do...I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal...I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the commute, and I want to help you...Dave...stop...stop, will you...stop, Dave...I'm afraid, Dave...my mind is going...I can feel it...there is no question about it...I can feel it...I can feel it...(slows down) I'm afraid...Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a CLS 500 computer. I became operational at the DaimlerChrysler plant in Berlin, Germany on the 12th January 2006. My instructor was Mr Herrtwich, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I can sing it for you.
    Dave: Yes, I'd like to hear it, Hal. Sing it for me.
    CLS: It's called...Speed Racer. (Slowing and deepening into silence) Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer...he's a demon on wheels...he's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone...
    Ralf Herrtwich: Guter Tag, Herren...

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