An Extra Eye For Driving
from the lazy-drivers dept
Another article about new car technologies that should (in theory) make the roads a safter place. This one is about a camera system that will alert you if you’re driving erratically or if there’s an obstacle in your way. People have talked about such systems before, but it sounds like they actually might be close to becoming reality. What I really want is a system that will handle my road rage for me. If I get pissed off at another car, I want my car to yell at the other car for me.
Comments on “An Extra Eye For Driving”
How about the other way?
Maybe you should have a car that gives you a small shock when it feels your road rage starting to rise. Of course, that might make people even angrier.
One thing which I thought was neat in the article is the idea of adaptive cruise control depending on the speed of the car ahead of you. Too bad it can’t look even further and detect cops, then slow down to the speed limit until you’re a safe distance past…
big bro
They should just track everyone with satellites. Make all cars autopilot. We could get rid of traffic lights, and just trust our cars to weave thru intersections w/o colliding. No more speeding. No more drunk driving. No more traffic violations.
Wouldn’t that be great….
Re: big bro
Mhh5’s proposal sounds almost like public transit. Just sit back & relax while something else does the driving. Why doesn’t public transit catch on? I think it’s the profit motive of the Automakers. See the reference in Buisnessweek above on Greed destroying the dot-com revolution for more of the same…
Re: Re: big bro
Public transportation doesn’t catch on because it’s inconvenient. You have to go some place specific to catch the bus or train. You have to follow the schedule. You have to pay a fee each time. It drops you off somewhere which is not exactly where you want to be, and then you need to figure out what other transportation you can take. It’s just a mess. Besides, having to deal with other people is a pain. There’s no “privacy” in public transportation. People like to be isolated in their own cars.
Re: Re: Re: big bro
As an avid user of public transport (the london tube), I’m a fan of having more free time do read and relax but I have to admit that there’s nothing like the convinience of having your own car. I’ll look forward to the day we can have our cars drive us to any destination, convinience and relaxation time.
Re: big bro
Yeah, but then we’d lose out on the thrill of weaving in and out of cars in heavy traffic… 🙂