Would it be rude

[andyBeaker]

My 760L had all this, it was boring. My 107 that PooPlow wants to buy doesn’t. It’s still boring. Bit like your posts really.

Buffoon.

I didn't realise it was a dick swinging contest.

Muppet.

Fact.

 

[Me!]

Too easy was that.

Buffoon.

 

[Cougar377]

You only have to look at the airliner industry to see what happens when there's an over reliance on technology and an under reliance on human skill. All technology relies on programmers to write the code to make the system work. One cockup in the code and it all goes pear shaped.

As an example.... when they were writing the code for the moon lander module they inadvertently set the values for gravity as Earth gravity. Lucky that was spotted, but then again they had far less lines of code to check than the code used in a modern central heating system.

There's no substitute for human intervention when the shit hits the fan, but that kind of presumes that the human is reasonably skilled and capable to do so. Unfortunately I can see an over reliance on technology eradicating that.

 

[slim63]

Yup.



I do take your point though.

However, anything that makes driving safer regardless of the standard of driving must be a good thing? ........for instance Stopping the car changing lanes on a motorway if there is something in the 'blind spot' - how many drivers (other than me) bother doing a proper lane check but just rely on their mirrors? The 8 Series I had would actually slam the brakes on if you are going to hit a parked car (or anything else for the matter, including bony fleshy things) as standard.

All this stuff will inevitably filter down the price range and, let's face it, are all baby steps toward fully automated driving.

It all gets my vote.

I think all this stuff is fine for those that can drive already drive without it like most of us old feckers on here but none of it is a good substitute for real driving skills & that goes even more so for the younger generation because when they rely on it & it fails they have no fall back plan, the consequences of that could & probably will be fatal

lets face it if you don't know you are crossing the centre line of a road without some gadget telling you so then you shouldn't be driving at all

 

[Pow-Lo]

Yup.



I do take your point though.

However, anything that makes driving safer regardless of the standard of driving must be a good thing? ........for instance Stopping the car changing lanes on a motorway if there is something in the 'blind spot' - how many drivers (other than me) bother doing a proper lane check but just rely on their mirrors? The 8 Series I had would actually slam the brakes on if you are going to hit a parked car (or anything else for the matter, including bony fleshy things) as standard.

All this stuff will inevitably filter down the price range and, let's face it, are all baby steps toward fully automated driving.

It all gets my vote.

Fully automated driving would be lethal and should never be allowed. It’s one step closer to where machines get to make potentially life or death decisions without human input. Then before you know it we’ll have a world akin to that in which there was a series of films starring Arnie..............

My 760L had all this, it was boring. My 107 that PooPlow wants to buy doesn’t. It’s still boring. Bit like your posts really.

Buffoon.

I would no more buy a shitty little French car than I would your red ‘Bird

 

[Cougar377]

Then before you know it we’ll have a world akin to that in which there was a series of films starring Arnie..............

Bagsy I be the Predator then...

 

[sr71caspar]

Then before you know it we’ll have a world akin to that in which there was a series of films starring Arnie..............

I was think more like a film with Rutger Hauer, Harrison Ford and Daryl Hannah

Or the Trilogy of films with Carrie Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving. Oh, and Ted from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.