Tuesday, February 19, 2019

T-Bolt's Unpopular Opinions

Ubiquitous self driving personal vehicles and 18-wheelers are the 'a flying car in every garage' pie in the sky promise of 2016.

I'm not gonna see it, you are not gonna see it.  It's a scientifiction story.





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6 comments:

  1. New Jovian ThunderboltFebruary 19, 2019 at 8:18 PM

    Cyberpunk dystopia? Yeah, that'll come true sooner than you think. Like... yesterday

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    1. RatusFebruary 19, 2019 at 10:47 PM

      "Cyberpunk dystopia?"

      It's more like a CyberLuddite dystopia.

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  2. RatusFebruary 19, 2019 at 10:44 PM

    Like the home atomic reactor and 'perfect' public transit, it's always 10 years into the future.

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  3. New Jovian ThunderboltFebruary 20, 2019 at 8:26 AM

    "FUSION! Reactors available after the first of the year"

    First of what year?

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  4. McChuckFebruary 20, 2019 at 9:20 AM

    We can't make self driving trains. Which, you know, literally run on rails.

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    1. VladFebruary 21, 2019 at 12:47 AM

      Actually driverless trains have been around for a while. The British post office built a narrow gauge underground system in the 1920s and several mass transit systems have fully driverless trains. Since they run under the control of a central signaling system on a fixed route driverless trains are actually easy. Local freight trains are harder and surface transportation is the hardest because it has to share

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