I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

17 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

1. Meh. Collateral damage on the way to a Brave New World. Besides the patient was … FAT. Fat people don’t rate. His ‘social credit’ was quite low … worthy of medical experimentation.

2. Kate’s family in 1908:

   “I, for one, welcome our new motorized carriage overlords.”

   1. Larry’s family in 2010: “The vehicle of the future runs on cheap, clean natural gas. Convert your fleet now.”

      https://www.saskenergy.com/business/NGVconverting.asp

3. I, for one, welcome our new self-driving whore houses.

   https://driving.ca/toyota/auto-news/news/motor-mouth-self-driving-cars-brothels-of-the-future

   1. Just a heads up. I’ll probably steal that tomorrow.

      1. Kate, I was going to post it in reader tips, later today, just so you could use it. So great if you do.
         And now appropriate “road music.”

         https://youtu.be/5AdtR-d2HJQ

   2. I hope to god they’re self-cleaning, too.

      1. Another reason to own & lock your vehicle.

   3. So then … Self-driving Subaru Outbacks will be the … lesbian … hook up vehicle of the future.

      I’m not drifting off-topic am I?

   4. In that piece: people will sleep in their self-driving cars overnight instead of flying to their destination.
      What astonishing credulity!
      As if, EVER.

4. some twenty years ago, my grandmother passed at the age of 97. when she was 89 years of age, she was suffering a jaundice and some concerned family members called for an ambulance to get her to hospital. she still refused to go and bit the hand of one of her rescuers. they left knowing full well that you cannot force anyone into an ambulance. she grew up in leuton-bedforshire and moved to canada when her father’s doctor recommended dry canadian prairie air for his lung ailments. they arrived in saskatchewan in december and it almost killed him. i will not offer up anything for the new priests of medicine. even if they tell me salvation awaits 🙂

5. Maybe someday these robotic doctors will do house calls in a self-driving car.

6. Boober will run pick-up trix (bed in the back.)
   Half-tons for the fatties.
   Perhaps “happy ending” will be marketed in the Netherlands.
   After all, who needs a doctor when you can have a whore.

7. A 99 percent chance of full recovery, had the luckless Englishman not been operated on by an Indian hack who thought sahib’s robot was a substitute for competence.

8. The persons who a) wrote that article, and b) let it pass through editing thusly, both need to lose their jobs. As well as whoever gave her passing grades in English.

   A heart patient who died after a robot performed complicated surgery said the man would have had a “99 per cent” chance of survival if a human had operated.

   Sooooo…he’s reporting on his own demise from beyond the grave…?

   The doctor leading the surgery on Stephen Pettitt, who died after a “catalogue of errors: was not trained enough to use the robot and had only practised using it on a simulator, an inquest heard.

   …the doctor died or the patient died? Who was practising on the simulator?

   The punctuation errors are giving me conniptions…missing and misplaced commas all over the place.

   Sigh….rant over.

   1. “Let’s eat grandma!” or “Let’s eat, grandma!”

      I agree, in a short while, people will no longer be able to communicate with one another intelligently. We will be back to grunting and flailing of arms.

   2. I sea spelink mistaks al uver the plac this dayes.

      welcome to the narcissist age.