Am I being thick or what? Driverless delivery vans are to be trialed in London soon. But they will have someone in the vehicle to take over in the event of a problem (and to no doubt hand over the parcels, otherwise it will be a self-serve delivery) It also appears that legislation has been passed in the US that driverless vehicles there will have to have someone be able to take over. It seems that the person has to be a licensed driver, or in other words they will have had to have passed a driving test. So what is the point of a bloody driverless vehicle? Is it just to make people lazier and fatter than what they already are?
People make mistakes. Driverless vehicles tend to make a lot less, if any. The driver behind the wheel will be purely there to pacify people who would worry that the car would go on some terminator style rampage.
Hey I think I'll invent the riderless motorbike. Ah, wait - err, maybe I need to think this one through a bit more.
The vehicles on the Docklands Light Railway are driverless. The vehicles on theme-park roller coaters are driverless. Many big factories and warehouses have driverless transport vehicles. What is under discussion is extending the concept from rail-guided vehicles to road-based vehicles, and from private premises to public areas.
I see..............so trams are making a comeback? Bloody hell they can't even lay railway lines properly these days, so imagine what it is going to be like with Scalextric grooves in the roads everywhere......... ....they will have to employ people to pick pieces of fluff out of them and to force the joints back together..........better be only 12 volt though........
I wonder how a driverless vehicle would cope with the real roads we have over here, rather than the super smooth testing roads of the US. As an example I've enclosed a pic of one of the roads I regularly take to work [emoji6]
Somehow I don't believe that's in East Sussex. I take your point though. Mind you, judging by some of the driving I've witnessed in this country lately driverless veeehickles might be an improvement.
I've got myself a cam on the bike now. Sooner or later some sod will hit me. Had a car completely fail a hill start and nearly came back into me. With nobody around I came to the conclusion that, had they hit me, they'd probably have claimed I went into the back of them at the lights. Hence I now have the cam on the front of the bike. Wouldn't get that with driverless vehicles. On a positive, with automated vehicles there'd be no point in putting more speed cameras out there. Then we can all just wheel out the bikes and have a blast!
Here's a plan. All Veeeehickles with 4 wheels or more should be driverless. Only 2 wheelers allowed riders. Votes please? ( 3 wheelers should be banned anyway)
Christ we are going to end up a useless bunch of fatties before long We won't have to get out of bed or lift a finger We are heading to a god damn boring life in the future
If they only replace the White Van massif, school run tractors - oh and get my Indian delivered in less than 1 1/2 hours it would be a bonus
Driving is hardly on the weight watchers program anyway. "I lost 2st just driving round the block... Thanks Vauxhall"! Realistically, we need to learn to just plain ditch the vehicle every now and then. It might actually be good to do some walking once in a while.
You will remember (from reading about it) that when cars were first sold, they had a bloke walking in front of them with a red flag, so dangerous and unreliable were they perceived to be. This is just the same. It won's last long. Driverless vehicles are going to be great for all the blind OAPs living in the sticks who need a car to get to the shops but shouldn't be driving. That's a big market.
Well it seems that we are already a useless bunch of fatties. And you're right. What are we supposed to do all day - watch reality TV and play computer games? Think of all that extra time texting and checking Facebook in the car instead of driving. Marvellous!
