Should I sharpen the family Claymore?It'll be both knees now!
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Should I sharpen the family Claymore?It'll be both knees now!
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No I won't and there's need to lecture me on progress, I've been watching it since I was born into an environment not far short of a century ago that still had many Middle Ages elements. I've been all SSD for many years, and my website provider switched all their servers to them recently, but that is an entirely different matter from self drive cars. SSD wasn't a moving target. You won't see them replacing our driven cars for all our uses in our lifetime because they need to operate in many moving targets, 7.6 billion of them for starters without even considering the ever moving surroundings.you will be proven wrong in your lifetime!
when I started, paper tapes were still in use, silicon hard drive was thought possible but not soon. Some 40 years later, SSDs are as cheap as chips. Computers rule our lives for sometime now. Best get used to it.
I did know, but there's also the evolution by elimination which you seem to be discounting, a.k.a survival of the fittest. That may already be in operation to a small degree with Covid-19 in high population density areas, if London is anything to go by.Sorry flecc, and since you are interested in biology, I would have assumed you knew. . Evolution is a very crude mechanism. Unless a disease renders an individual less capable of reproduction, or reduces fertility, it has no effect. This is why for instance Cancers of the elderly are not controlled , and in fact can increase. Whereas diseases such as CF, with which I am familiar, are held very strictly under control
Imagine you arrive at Hong Kong International airport.No I won't and there's need to lecture me on progress, I've been watching it since I was born into an environment not far short of a century ago that still had many Middle Ages elements. I've been all SSD for many years, and my website provider switched all their servers to them recently, but that is an entirely different matter from self drive cars. SSD wasn't a moving target. You won't see them replacing our driven cars for all our uses in our lifetime because they need to operate in many moving targets, 7.6 billion of them for starters without even considering the ever moving surroundings.
Anyway, in all my 70 years of riding and driving motorised I've never heard one driver wanting their driving to be taken from them. So what is the point of progress against universal human wishes to profit a tiny handful of the wealthy at our expense.
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Well I for one would welcome zero driving and automatic transportation. Prior to the lockdown, I was traveling by train and would have assumed much longer day trips this summer.No I won't and there's need to lecture me on progress, I've been watching it since I was born into an environment not far short of a century ago that still had many Middle Ages elements. I've been all SSD for many years, and my website provider switched all their servers to them recently, but that is an entirely different matter from self drive cars. SSD wasn't a moving target. You won't see them replacing our driven cars for all our uses in our lifetime because they need to operate in many moving targets, 7.6 billion of them for starters without even considering the ever moving surroundings.
Anyway, in all my 70 years of riding and driving motorised I've never heard one driver wanting their driving to be taken from them. So what is the point of progress against universal human wishes to profit a tiny handful of the wealthy at our expense.
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As I've previousl;y acknowledged on this subject, I haven't ruled out all circumstances and have said there will be of course be instances for driverless cars to be used. Indeed they already exist in public use.Imagine you arrive at Hong Kong International airport.
Ignore the Airport Express because it stops at the wrong side of the water for your hotel.
Your choices of transfer to your hotel are: taxi with a driver and a taxi without a driver.
The cost to provide you with a taxi without a driver is obviously much less than with. I'd say a driverless taxi costs about the the same as an Airport Express ticket.
The route from the airport to your hotel does not have any particular surprise in 99.99% of cases.
Which taxi would you choose?
Let's take another airport example but in a different context.
You arrive at Malaga airport.
You need to rent a car. It's a busy airport. Passengers tend to queue outside car hire places after pushing their trolley for a quarter of a mile.
Your choices are: driverless cars and normal cars, both at the same price except that the driverless car can meet you where you wait with your luggage.
Would you choose to hire a driverless car? (you can always take over the wheel if you so wish)
I'm definitely against handing the driving I enjoy to automation, even if it were possible, but not against alternative means of transport. That said, there's few things more boring than seated in an airliner with someone else twiddling the controls.Well I for one would welcome zero driving and automatic transportation. Prior to the lockdown, I was traveling by train and would have assumed much longer day trips this summer.
I'm not even confident of that time frame Ross.We'll have them one day .. in forty years
I'm forever late, so always nailing it as fast as possible, and self drive features (other than arguable safety features that have been known to fail)dont really fit in with thisMy car will brake if I drive too close to another car but if the other vehicle then speeds up mine with accelerate again, needless to say I keep that option off. It's also got lane guidance and self parking, all good fun but I can do that already so it's just a novelty. The only way driverless cars will take off is with the driver being alert & aware of what conditions exist at any one time which for me at least negates the point of their presence anyway.
I use adaptive cruise control a lot of the time.My car will brake if I drive too close to another car but if the other vehicle then speeds up mine with accelerate again, needless to say I keep that option off. It's also got lane guidance and self parking, all good fun but I can do that already so it's just a novelty. The only way driverless cars will take off is with the driver being alert & aware of what conditions exist at any one time which for me at least negates the point of their presence anyway.
Chris Grayling resigns from intelligence and security committee
MP quits six weeks after humiliating failure to become committee chair
terrible loss (but schapps, hancock, cummings, boris etc are lining up to make the next spike memorable. tories have incredible comic potential). And his interest in security seemed so sincere.He hasn't the intelligence and felt rather insecure?