Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:41:12 -0800
Reply-To: "SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: "SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: FRIDAY: Craigslist ad from the future
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"not sure why' in the ad text is code for 'havn't a clue.'
By 2027 it will be illegal to pilot your own car.
Driver's license tests will only be about proper computer operation and
interface with the car..
nothing about actually knowing rules and laws ( the car will take care
of all that ) ..or guiding the car ..that won't be allowed.
There wont' even be steering wheels..
just an computer-human interface.
People will hoard rare gasoline and sneak out on country roads at night
..just to pilot their cars that the driver actually controls, old
fashioned ones.
Daddy ? ....is it true you used to get in your car and drive it wherever
you wanted ?
yes Honey ...it was real nice !
But Daddy ...how could that work ???????
and really ...
how hard is it to retro fit every car's ecu with a speed setting device
that gets signals from the side of the freeway ?
Technically ..
today even ...super simple.
I mentioned it to an Oregon Dept of Transportation Engineer I know ..his
first thought was the infrastructure ...like what's need to make a smart
highway like that..
Speed setting transmitters though, along the sides of freeways that tell
the ecu what speed to run at .. ...easy to do.
Any car with a Vehicle Speed Sensor and electronically controlled engine
management ...piece of cake to do.
and radar-based cruise control so cars can't follow another car at say
70 mph and one only 1 1/2 car lengths back ( they do this in Ca
..anyway ..never mind electronic nannies ) ....just wouldn't be possible.
Mercedes has had it a few years already.
Did you hear about how it's illegal to use water, in any portion, in
your car or van's cooling system now ?
Yep ..
water is so scarce that it's a $ 2,000 fine for mixing regular ole H20
with anti-rfrz and then put in in your car's cooling system.
Urine is allowed though ..that's the good news. And wine and whiskey,
fine .. ..but not water.
Water ...nope ! Too rare.
what comes after severe water shortage ??
Answer . moving water around by burning fossils fuels ( and thus
creating more pollution ) to transport it.
Which only adds to the problem - duh !
If you're not in the West ...Mid-Oregon and south, you might not
understand how bad it is this winter, water-wise.
It's already severe in Ca ..
if there is not a nice spring with rain .....
tell me...what do you do when 35 million people only have water for say
10 million people ?
God is pissed ..she really is. All that war and burning fossil fuels
...just dunno humans, just dunno. .
Jim Lahey, Sunnyvale Trailer Park
On 1/24/2014 12:04 PM, TonyCollin wrote:
> Well you can always buy the audiobox 1 billion aftermarket autopilot in eBay 5.2v
>
> Just saying.
>
> On Jan 24, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Geez, not another autopilot retrofit thread ... can't we get back to tires?
>> On Jan 24, 2014 2:36 PM, "turbowesty" <turbowesty@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would probably been owned by one of us who tinkered with it a little
>> too much?
>>
>> Regards, Peter Kraiker
>> nextchapter.kraikerphoto.com
>> Toronto, ON, Canada
>> '82 L Westfalia 1.9 TD 5 Spd (Babe)
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 24, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently saw a program about the coming "smart" cars that drive
>>> themselves and how they are now being road proven in different countries.
>>> They are coming. Here's a Craigslist ad from the year 2027:
>>>
>>> CURB ALERT 2025 Toyota Corolla. Interior perfect. Like new tires. No
>>> scratches or dents. Runs perfectly including transmission and brakes. No
>>> leaks. Autopilot not functional, not sure why. Bring a trailer.
>>>
>>> ***
>>>
>>> Jim
