Off Topic Driverless cars

Put it this way, I've never had a toaster that hasn't occasionally burnt my toast.

 

Also, you won't own the car in this future plan. There'd effectively just be a massive fleet of driverless electric cabs that you'd call when you wanted to get somewhere.

As long as it can get me home from the boozer, I'm all for it.

 

Will they know to mount a kerb ( if safe to do so) to let an ambulance get past on a narrow street ?

 

You shouldn’t ever need to mount a kerb of course as roads in Britain are wide enough for 4 cars side by side, but then that’s the fact that one of the biggest weaknesses in drivers here are people are scared of oncoming traffic.

You see folk brake cos a car comes towards them on the other side of the road! What the ****. People should have to have a ‘confidence test’, cos people who aren’t confident driving should not be allowed to operate a machine capable of killing.

 

If you've left enough space between you and the car in front you shouldn't have to mount a curb to let an ambulance pass. Scary that dude, hate cars mounting curbs as I'm walking passed. Those dodgy ****s are usually doing it to park though.

 

Harperly road isn't.
Certain spots you have to pull over to let oncoming traffic past.
There was an accident one time on the A693 & everybody had to mount the kerb to let the ambulance past & that's on a three lane road once you get past the Pelaw Grange roundabout.

 

Aye I’m sure there’s exceptions, but generally.

There isn’t usually a kerb on a narrow road though, again I’m sure that’s not always the case.

 

Hell mate you can't even get one car down some of the roads round here.

 

I'm sure in America with 4 or 5 lane motorways each way they can set aside lanes for driverless vehicles but in England the whole idea is bloody ridiculous with the levels of congestion we have.

 

I do leave space- on the odd occasion I’ve gone on a kerb it’s been to make up for what others do/don’t do .
Don’t worry, I wouldn’t come on the pavement if you were on it. And I wouldn’t ’ be hurtling onto it - almost stopped and edging on.

 

Wagon Rd in Barnet, morning rush hour, you have to drive down the kerb the last 300 yards every bloody morning because of all the inpatient, bigger than your's Chelsea tractors, coming off Cockfosters Rd.

Bastards

I'd like to see a driverless car deal with that **** without blowing a gasket!!

 

Some scare me half to death.

 

Talking about narrow roads been over to Walney Island today to help my mate build a bbq cabin and on the way home as we are over taking a lorry on the 591 bypass a new top of the range jag came up on the out side and tried to overtake both of us only succeeding in taring the side of his jag but he just floored it and
f ucked off.

 

You can't walk around my estate for ****ers hogging the footpath.
Not content with two wheels on they have to have the whole path.
Anybody in a wheelchair would have no chance because of inconsiderate drivers.
IT'S CALLED A ****ING FOOTPATH YOU PIG IGNORANT TWATS.
THERE'S A CLUE THERE - IT'S FOR FEET NOT WHEELS!

 

I appreciate that there are more and more cars these days ( who would have predicted multiple cars per household when they originally built) but what really p*sses me off is all the works vans that turn residential areas into truck parks and contribute to the problems you mention. Wonder if they're all fully insured for being taken home?

 

It's a real bugbear with me mate.
It creates real problems for the elderly & the disabled.
And you're right about folk who bring their vans & trucks home from work.
I live at the top end of my estate, there is a school across the road & it's ****ing chaos on a morning.
They have no consideration for the people that live there while they drop their brats off with their big **** off 4x4's

 

You're using it incorrectly. If the machine was able to weigh the bread, gauge the thickness and density and then chose it's own setting and time to get the appropriate amount of toasting it would work better. Bad workman and all that...

 

Here's the ocado warehouse:

Now imagine that instead of an algorithm and technical proficiency behind maximising efficiency and minimising delays and disruption you instead had a bunch of spotty teenagers, raging/tired workers and doddering drifty people going around with the boxes filling them with items in no particular order. I strongly suspect that in a couple of generations time people will look back in disbelief and say "you used to drive them yourselves? Why?".

 

Maybe cos a lot of people enjoy driving? Just a thought.

 

A lot of people enjoy horse riding too and I reckon it will become a hobby in the same way rather than a necessity.