BMW and Mercedes to offer self driving cars by 2024
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It’s an interesting conundrum, do those who take a pride in their driving and get satisfaction from applying their skills behind the wheel really celebrate the slow deconstruction of personal freedoms. With autonomous cars comes 5G and tracking, tracking and harvesting of that data by commercial organisations and the state. Be afraid we are sleep walking in to a technological dystopia. .......only my opinion but probably not too wrong.
Toaster said:
It’s an interesting conundrum, do those who take a pride in their driving and get satisfaction from applying their skills behind the wheel really celebrate the slow deconstruction of personal freedoms. With autonomous cars comes 5G and tracking, tracking and harvesting of that data by commercial organisations and the state. Be afraid we are sleep walking in to a technological dystopia. .......only my opinion but probably not too wrong.
Agree ...... personally I just can’t see this in the practical sense working. Fine if your just commuting within a clogged up city travelling at <20mph ...... but on the open road and a deer runs out in front of you or a truck jack knives in front of you on a soaked motorway and your dozing/Facebook (as the driver would) and an emergency stop ...... nah Edited by Wozy68 on Thursday 15th August 17:37
Absolutely agree. There is nothing more troubling than having the one thing that we all crave about driving slowly but surely taken away. 'Feel' is everything. I wonder what it will take for this erosion of personal freedom to halt and let us make the decision to drive for driving's sake, for simple and raw pleasures, for freedom and for feeling.
Wozy68 said:
Toaster said:
It’s an interesting conundrum, do those who take a pride in their driving and get satisfaction from applying their skills behind the wheel really celebrate the slow deconstruction of personal freedoms. With autonomous cars comes 5G and tracking, tracking and harvesting of that data by commercial organisations and the state. Be afraid we are sleep walking in to a technological dystopia. .......only my opinion but probably not too wrong.
Agree ...... personally I just can’t see this in the practical sense working. Fine if your just commuting within a clogged up city travelling at <20mph ...... but on the open road and a deer runs out in front of you or a truck jack knives in front of you on a soaked motorway and your dozing/Facebook (as the driver would) and an emergency stop ...... nah Edited by Wozy68 on Thursday 15th August 17:37
The technology is already in some of the Mercedes cars. An S Class with only a few minor tweaks completed the same journey that the first car did, that was a few years ago as well.
Wozy68 said:
Agree ...... personally I just can’t see this in the practical sense working. Fine if your just commuting within a clogged up city travelling at <20mph ...... but on the open road and a deer runs out in front of you or a truck jack knives in front of you on a soaked motorway and your dozing/Facebook (as the driver would) and an emergency stop ...... nah
The car would more than likely react quicker than a human, not only that it would brake harder as most people don't get anywhere near 100% of braking when they stamp on the brakes.Edited by Wozy68 on Thursday 15th August 17:37
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