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meltwill2 72M
2577 posts
7/25/2023 11:52 pm
Modern Self-Driving Vehicles

Modern Self Driving Vehicles.......if the government has anything to do with it you know nothing can go wrong. Intercom announcement leaving parking lot....."Welcome all people, this is the newest and most modern self-driving vehicle in the world. Developed by companies that were foremost in getting a man on the moon and back safely. I would like to assure you that even though this unit, like our space program, is made by the cheapest bidder.....nothing can go wrong....nothing can go wrong....nothing can go wrong....nothing can go wrong....nothing can go wrong....nothing can go wrong.................................................................................................."



meltwill2 72M
3833 posts
7/25/2023 11:55 pm

Just what is needed.....an ASS driving the self-driving vehicle.....


rydermantel 69M
26075 posts
7/26/2023 12:22 am


rondiri 65M
11202 posts
7/26/2023 11:50 am

Telsa and Musk aren't doing too good a job with them either according to all the news articles.


meltwill2 72M
3833 posts
7/26/2023 9:07 pm

    Quoting rondiri:
    Telsa and Musk aren't doing too good a job with them either according to all the news articles.
I can remember being fascinated at the state fair back in the 50's when they had a concept car and It was suppose to "drive itself" as you slept or played cards or whatever. Guess you could have become a member of the 70mph club One year they had a small van size unit that had one gull wing on the passenger side door and a table in the center. I was sold!!! There was a long line to just sit at the table. I think I hit that line about 5 times that day
The idea was to have the equivalent of air traffic control towers monitoring the cars along the road with towers like every 20 miles. We are getting closer.....got cell towers now.

The 1956 GM Firebird II was the only car ever built with a titanium body. It was also built to drive autonomously on an electronic highway.

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meltwill2 72M
3833 posts
7/26/2023 9:15 pm

As a side note the first electric car was Scotland’s Robert Anderson, whose motorized carriage was built sometime between 1832 and ’39. Batteries (galvanic cells) were not yet rechargeable, so it was more parlor trick (“Look! No horse nor ox, yet it moves!”) than a transportation device. Another Scot, Robert Davidson of Aberdeen, built a prototype electric locomotive in 1837. A bigger, better version, demonstrated in 1841, could go 1.5 miles at 4 mph towing six tons. Then it needed new batteries. Bout like the electric ones today


JohnnyLightning 65M  
9729 posts
7/27/2023 6:22 am

Too bad it didn't come in red, it might have been more popular

Howling at the moon and mal ad osteo.



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