If the pedal gets harder to press, then I'll just have to get a stronger leg. Also, how will the car know we've switched drivers, and that my girlfriend can't press the pedal down at all. Okay, apart from the fact that she's imaginary.
So how's all this going to work in Boston after "The Big Dig"? When I checked last (yesterday), my GPS still doesn't work in tunnels.
And what about road rage? I already get annoyed with traffic if its pandering to silly speed rules -- is there going to be "car rage" in the future, where people start getting mad at their own vehicles?
Oh yeah, and is the system really going to be accurate and smart enough to know when I've gone to a track-day with my supercharged 4-wheeled land-rocket, and give my back my accelerator/gas pedal while I'm *legally* racing?
I think this is all the pipe-dream of an over-controlling technocrat somewhere! I guess this initiative will fail completely anyway -- I can't see car makers backing it, owners/driver won't want to pay for it, and lets face it, it gives practically nothing back to the users except a longer, possibly more dangerous, more annoying driving experience. I mean really, who's gonna vote for that?
I don't know if the government has high-tech snoopers (but I bet they do judging by the chatter about internet wire-taps), but won't they carefully monitor the traffic any site/page that might get an potentially damaging insider tip/leak?
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Anybody else remember this article from Wired about John Piña Craven's work along a very similar line?t ml
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.h
If the pedal gets harder to press, then I'll just have to get a stronger leg. Also, how will the car know we've switched drivers, and that my girlfriend can't press the pedal down at all. Okay, apart from the fact that she's imaginary.
So how's all this going to work in Boston after "The Big Dig"? When I checked last (yesterday), my GPS still doesn't work in tunnels.
And what about road rage? I already get annoyed with traffic if its pandering to silly speed rules -- is there going to be "car rage" in the future, where people start getting mad at their own vehicles?
Oh yeah, and is the system really going to be accurate and smart enough to know when I've gone to a track-day with my supercharged 4-wheeled land-rocket, and give my back my accelerator/gas pedal while I'm *legally* racing?
I think this is all the pipe-dream of an over-controlling technocrat somewhere! I guess this initiative will fail completely anyway -- I can't see car makers backing it, owners/driver won't want to pay for it, and lets face it, it gives practically nothing back to the users except a longer, possibly more dangerous, more annoying driving experience. I mean really, who's gonna vote for that?
I don't know if the government has high-tech snoopers (but I bet they do judging by the chatter about internet wire-taps), but won't they carefully monitor the traffic any site/page that might get an potentially damaging insider tip/leak?
This gives a whole new meaning to the term, "woolly-headed"!