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.





6 comments:

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

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

Ratus said...

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

Ratus said...

"Cyberpunk dystopia?"

It's more like a CyberLuddite dystopia.

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

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

First of what year?

McChuck said...

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

Vlad said...

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