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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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1965 Mustang convertible, V8, four barrel, deep blue metal flake paint, black top, matching deep blue interior. the sweetest car I ever owned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UFQWKjy_I
In 1966:
Austin-Healy model 100-6. 4 speed with Laycock de Normanville overdrive (8 speed).
Wire wheels with knock offs. Red. Convertible without roll up windows (plastic clip- on carried in the trunk. You don’t need no stinking windows in a convertible.) I removed the front bumper for better appearance.
A car with real personality. Loved it.
Today that car would be worth well over $100,000. Sold it to guy down the street when I went into the army. He crashed and junked it. Such is the fate of cars.
David, you seem to be the only here with a sense of perspective. I was born in Montreal, but moved to Toronto when I was 3 in 1960. The drive back to Montreal was stop and go on the 401 until we hit the 35/115 cut off (to Peterborough and the Kawartha Lakes), after which we could drive at 70 mph (the speed limit back then!). After we passed Kingston, my dad used to let the big V-8 rip, and we’d do 90 mph until we hit Quebec. (90 mph in a car with drum brakes, no airbags, no seatbelts for the 3 kids, no ABS, no independent suspension – gawd, if you told a lefty that today, his head would explode!)
Today, I make that same trip, and it’s bumper-to-bumper ALL THE WAY FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL. It’s not at all pleasant; at best, it’s boring, and at worst, eminently frustrating. Throw in one accident at the wrong place, and you’re looking at a 20 mile log jam.
I enjoy blasting down empty roads just as much as anyone. Unfortunately, for where I, and THE VAST MAJORITY OF CANADIANS , live (major urban centres), traffic is constant, aggravating, and unavoidable. Self-driving cars that could have, for example, an HOV -type lane where they move at 140 km/h would be instantly in demand for drivers who would rather spend the hour working on their computers, talking to friends, or just resting.
Of course, as so many here like to point out: It’s a free country. If you don’t want a self-driving car, DON’T BUY ONE. But the repeated scorn of so many here to any new technology is one reason I’m visit less and less. Ned Ludd had nothing on you guys.
Who keeps asking these companies to keep making cars uglier? Who would ever want to be caught dead in one of those monstrosities?
If just one company would bring back the oldies for good prices, they’d make a killing.
Most of the ‘autopilot’ cars will be in big cities, along with most of the hazards described. Big cities are also mostly populated by lieberal progs, and they’re the sorts of people who will buy/use electric ‘autopilot’ cars. They will also encounter the greatest number of accidents and fatalities. To me, that looks a problem solving itself.
Yes I know its dated and no one will read this.
I am touched by your faith.
Ludd would be proud.
You expect a government mandated, software dependent robotic system to serve the public good?
We have many examples of how well bureaucratic control works, especially with respect to software systems.
Cynicism based on results is not anti technology.
Magical thinking, for example that the self driving car will solve the public transport problems of large urban areas, is not going to end well.
Especially when driven with huge amounts of taxpayers money to impose an “expert” solution.
Never mind the self driving car,I suggest we go straight to the robotic personal drone.
Specializing in air dropping urbanites.
The all electric version being the only environmentally acceptable version of course.
@John Robertson:
Not to worry about being late…. I do check for comments even late.
I really don’t understand your post however. Why are you suggesting “bureaucratic control”? I certainly wasn’t suggesting that the government get involved. Vehicle manufacturers are the ones working on driverless vehicles. So far as I am aware they don’t even have government incentive money for this.
And do YOU understand the what a Luddite is (your reference to “Ludd”)? I’m the antithesis of a “Ludd” whereas you apparently are, in fact, a Luddite.
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