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longship

(40,416 posts)

36. Pshaw! How silly.

Reply to MindPilot (Reply #33)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 08:21 PM

Oct 2015

Everybody knows that hovercraft are always full of eels.

I stand by my posts here.

My best to you.

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Life after human operated automobiles are obsolete. [View all] trof Oct 2015 OP

What will this cost? Fumesucker Oct 2015 #1

There will NEVER be robocars where I live. longship Oct 2015 #2

Yes, they will. MindPilot Oct 2015 #22

Girls Crash into Lake Following Bad GPS Directions KittyWampus Oct 2015 #28

Who said anything about GPS? MindPilot Oct 2015 #32

Several issues Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #35

Five years? longship Oct 2015 #30

That is my guess. I work where some of this stuff is being developed. MindPilot Oct 2015 #33

Pshaw! How silly. longship Oct 2015 #36

No TSA? lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #3

I think auto parking will be cool. Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #4

You will no longer own a car. trof Oct 2015 #6

Im not so sure of that Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #13

You won't have to wait. trof Oct 2015 #14

I don't have to wait now as it is. Throd Oct 2015 #15

The Royal Ahold Group (I call them royal a-holes, but that's a different post..!) that runs GIANT MADem Oct 2015 #40

No more driveways, garages, or parking lots. KamaAina Oct 2015 #5

Garages will become game rooms, workshops, whatever. trof Oct 2015 #8

Or in San Francisco, studio apartments. KamaAina Oct 2015 #11

I actually find driving my old car to be quite enjoyable. Throd Oct 2015 #7

I prefer 'freeing'. trof Oct 2015 #10

If you want to crawl inside a robot, knock yourself out. I prefer the freedom of driving the car my Throd Oct 2015 #12

This will become a hobby, and a very expensive one. trof Oct 2015 #16

Trust me, it already is an expensive hobby. Throd Oct 2015 #26

especially with the bunch of drunk folk Skittles Oct 2015 #20

"this will cost less" Skittles Oct 2015 #9

I will guarantee it will be cheaper than owner/operators. trof Oct 2015 #18

I remember when they said banking would be cheaper without tellers Skittles Oct 2015 #19

I remember "electricity too cheap to meter" MindPilot Oct 2015 #24

I've never been a big fan of driving Skittles Oct 2015 #25

OK, and nuclear power. trof Oct 2015 #29

Agreed, it time to accept the private automobile IS mass transit. MindPilot Oct 2015 #17

That's the path we've chosen in the U.S. trof Oct 2015 #21

Personal opinion only, but to me that sounds like a vision of hell. =( Shandris Oct 2015 #23

When I was a kid I was hoping the automobile age would be over by now. hunter Oct 2015 #27

Yes. The European Model. trof Oct 2015 #31

I've lived in places like that. hunter Oct 2015 #37

yes we will customise our robots olddots Oct 2015 #34

Gonna be tough going rock crawling using a self driving ORV ileus Oct 2015 #38

Hopefully after I am dead. Nt hack89 Oct 2015 #39