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japie
japie
NSW
7146 posts
NSW, 7146 posts
22 Sep 2010 11:35pm
Which gets me to where I want to be.

You only have to watch human behaviour to realise that it is the only common denominator in accidents.

It is fact that the top F1 teams can get a car around a track by remote control quicker than they can with a driver.

Our roads, as poor as they are in Aus, are a gigantic asphalt parking lots for a form of transport that is arguably less efficient than the horse

As a kid I had a brilliant slot car set up. Having sat in traffic for far too long in my life, I have to ask, why is it in this day and age, where we can use GPS to guide massive mining trucks without a driver, do we rely on this archaic schamozel we have got today.

Imagine a system where you do not have a car. You hit a button on your personal communication device and it asks you where you want to go, tells you when to meet it and conveys you to your destination without risk because there is No Human Intervention.

100% reliable, electric community vehicles. Never hit a pedestrian, never kill a passenger. Your kids can play in the street without risk, no noise, no hooligans, no accidents and

No debate about keeping left

Think it cannot be done? Ask the geeks. If they can calculate order out of chaos, which they can, then they can solve the problem.

There is reason why human beings only get seriously hurt playing football and not when colliding in the shopping mall. We are not built to collide with anything at speed.

The calculations needs to be done by computer whilst the passengers text

Like the ones that land a Boeing every 1.5 minutes at Heathrow.

It is do-able, we have the technology, just there is a vested interest

Had to get that one in for all you capitalist V8 gass guzzlers with phallic vehicular syndrome induced by conventional press
Carantoc
Carantoc
WA
7283 posts
WA, 7283 posts
22 Sep 2010 9:58pm
japie said...

Which gets me to where I want to be.

You only have to watch human behaviour to realise that it is the only common denominator in accidents.

It is fact that the top F1 teams can get a car around a track by remote control quicker than they can with a driver.

Our roads, as poor as they are in Aus, are a gigantic asphalt parking lots for a form of transport that is arguably less efficient than the horse

As a kid I had a brilliant slot car set up. Having sat in traffic for far too long in my life, I have to ask, why is it in this day and age, where we can use GPS to guide massive mining trucks without a driver, do we rely on this archaic schamozel we have got today.

Imagine a system where you do not have a car. You hit a button on your personal communication device and it asks you where you want to go, tells you when to meet it and conveys you to your destination without risk because there is No Human Intervention.

100% reliable, electric community vehicles. Never hit a pedestrian, never kill a passenger. Your kids can play in the street without risk, no noise, no hooligans, no accidents and

No debate about keeping left

Think it cannot be done? Ask the geeks. If they can calculate order out of chaos, which they can, then they can solve the problem.

There is reason why human beings only get seriously hurt playing football and not when colliding in the shopping mall. We are not built to collide with anything at speed.

The calculations needs to be done by computer whilst the passengers text

Like the ones that land a Boeing every 1.5 minutes at Heathrow.

It is do-able, we have the technology, just there is a vested interest

Had to get that one in for all you capitalist V8 gass guzzlers with phallic vehicular syndrome induced by conventional press


because I quite enjoy the journey and I quite enjoy driving ?



Besides I thought we stayed left. Gillard got back in. I assumed the majoity of people want to be on the left, so anyone on the right is in the minority and thus by maoning about them you are abusing a minority group - which is not very politically correct.

Why not just swap to driving on the right, then everything would be good ?
japie
japie
NSW
7146 posts
NSW, 7146 posts
23 Sep 2010 12:32am
Carantoc said...

japie said...

Which gets me to where I want to be.

You only have to watch human behaviour to realise that it is the only common denominator in accidents.

It is fact that the top F1 teams can get a car around a track by remote control quicker than they can with a driver.

Our roads, as poor as they are in Aus, are a gigantic asphalt parking lots for a form of transport that is arguably less efficient than the horse

As a kid I had a brilliant slot car set up. Having sat in traffic for far too long in my life, I have to ask, why is it in this day and age, where we can use GPS to guide massive mining trucks without a driver, do we rely on this archaic schamozel we have got today.

Imagine a system where you do not have a car. You hit a button on your personal communication device and it asks you where you want to go, tells you when to meet it and conveys you to your destination without risk because there is No Human Intervention.

100% reliable, electric community vehicles. Never hit a pedestrian, never kill a passenger. Your kids can play in the street without risk, no noise, no hooligans, no accidents and

No debate about keeping left

Think it cannot be done? Ask the geeks. If they can calculate order out of chaos, which they can, then they can solve the problem.

There is reason why human beings only get seriously hurt playing football and not when colliding in the shopping mall. We are not built to collide with anything at speed.

The calculations needs to be done by computer whilst the passengers text

Like the ones that land a Boeing every 1.5 minutes at Heathrow.

It is do-able, we have the technology, just there is a vested interest

Had to get that one in for all you capitalist V8 gass guzzlers with phallic vehicular syndrome induced by conventional press


because I quite enjoy the journey and I quite enjoy driving ?



Besides I thought we stayed left. Gillard got back in. I assumed the majoity of people want to be on the left, so anyone on the right is in the minority and thus by maoning about them you are abusing a minority group - which is not very politically correct.

Why not just swap to driving on the right, then everything would be good ?


Why is it that you have to keep it complicated.

If I could exchange every hour in traffic to being on the water surely that is a good thing.

If need be I could tape John Laws?
nebbian
nebbian
WA
6277 posts
WA, 6277 posts
22 Sep 2010 10:34pm
japie said...
Apparently the dealers get innumerable requests to deactivate the facility so they can travel closer to the car in front

Thats right, they want to ba able to get l;soer than the manufacturers of an $85k vehicle reckon is safe



I don't know what it is in human nature that makes some people want to travel really close to the car in front...

Or why, after you flash your brake lights at the haemorrhoid sitting a metre behind you, they back off and then get really, really really angry at you, and swerve in front of you with screaming tyres and yell abuse out the window.

It's guaranteed to get them wound up though [}:)]
superlizard
superlizard
VIC
702 posts
VIC, 702 posts
23 Sep 2010 8:20am
cisco said...

superlizard said...
I live in the fast lane...
gotta get to places quick...
no time to loose...
life's too short...



Life will be even shorter if you keep thinking like that.

Is there not a lovely lazy lady lizard that loves a long low luscious one applied slowly that longs for you to linger a little longer??

Who loves ya baby??


ok, let me correct that...

"I live in the fast lane... so that i can take pleasure in the slow lane..."

is that better

mattyjee
mattyjee
WA
575 posts
WA, 575 posts
23 Sep 2010 8:20am
I once drove from Germany to Netherlands, ie the loosest speed rules in the EU to the tightest. At first, we were cruising at about 160-180kph, staying the the right lane (slow lane) and allowing faster cars to overtake, and pulling out only to overtake slower cars. It worked beautifully.

Technically the speed limit is 130kph on both sides of the border, but in germany it isn't enforced and in Netherlands it is. As soon as we crossed the border, without any other cars joining the highway, it immediately became conjested as cars were not allowing other cars to pass and everyone (most people) were trying to stay under the limit.

I also just got back from Florida and California where i noticed that the speed limits seem to be advisory only. 65mph is the general limit (about 108kph) but most people average about 75-80, including the cops.

I think Australia has the most strict enforcing of speed limits in the world.
GreenPat
GreenPat
QLD
4105 posts
QLD, 4105 posts
23 Sep 2010 11:52am
I was driving between Johannesburg to Rustenberg in South Africa one day, doing 140 in a 120 zone, and I caught up with a police car. He moved halfway into the emergency lane to let me past, as is the practice over there, so I did.
superlizard
superlizard
VIC
702 posts
VIC, 702 posts
23 Sep 2010 1:48pm
^^^ wow... this should go in the "All good..." thread
japie
japie
NSW
7146 posts
NSW, 7146 posts
23 Sep 2010 7:56pm
superlizard said...

^^^ wow... this should go in the "All good..." thread


There is one drawback which is not good to ignore. Whilst you can travel very fast in SA because of the good roads the death toll is about 40,000 per annum.
Ian K
Ian K
WA
4169 posts
WA, 4169 posts
23 Sep 2010 6:37pm
And with about 6 million licensed drivers that's not a good ratio. Confirms my feeling that if road rule law enforcement was backed off another notch in Australia I wouldn't be game to get out on the road.

And what's with NSW? You've got to do 120 in a 110 zone to get a ticket. Even though I've managed to collect two Victorian tickets in the last 12 months, they've at least got the right idea. A limit is a limit, if it's 120 call it 120.
Jimbob McBoilygroin
Jimbob McBoilygroin
QLD
82 posts
QLD, 82 posts
23 Sep 2010 9:01pm
japie said...

superlizard said...

^^^ wow... this should go in the "All good..." thread


There is one drawback which is not good to ignore. Whilst you can travel very fast in SA because of the good roads the death toll is about 40,000 per annum.


^^^^ is eggzagerated a bit by him

2009 seth efrica rode toll was 13, 768

its on the interweb !! i looked it up
japie
japie
NSW
7146 posts
NSW, 7146 posts
23 Sep 2010 9:30pm
Jimbob McBoilygroin said...

japie said...

superlizard said...

^^^ wow... this should go in the "All good..." thread


There is one drawback which is not good to ignore. Whilst you can travel very fast in SA because of the good roads the death toll is about 40,000 per annum.


^^^^ is eggzagerated a bit by him

2009 seth efrica rode toll was 13, 768

its on the interweb !! i looked it up


Like I said it is lots!

A whole new scenario opens when you have been esposed to African drivers.

A mate was driving in Mocambique a while back, at night, and thought he was going strange in the head. Every now and then for the space of a few K's sparks were appearing ahead of him.

He eventually caught up to a truck which had no lights whatsoever. It was so heavily laden that the back diff was contacting the road when it hit potholes sending up the sparks.
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