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[digidix]

Feel free to move this if this is in the wrong place..
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110919-37681.html
But who would like computerised cars that drive and park on their own?

I wouldn't mind having cars that drive on their on, so long as I get the feel of actually driving manually on occasions. I am sure that their are places that computers can't do everything without some human input.

Though if it becomes standard that cars are driven by computers, just imagine no more heavy metal chassis to protect the driver

[Wooster]

It'd be handy for me if I got called out to some remote location late at night.
I'd just jump in the passenger seat, drop the recliner right back and get a kip on the way there and back.  

Anyhoo, speaking of computerised cars... 

[digidix]

It'd be handy for me if I got called out to some remote location late at night.
I'd just jump in the passenger seat, drop the recliner right back and get a kip on the way there and back.  

Anyhoo, speaking of computerised cars... 
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Funny, I was thinking of the exact movie 

[corroded]

It would be great on motorways, but really all cars would need it surely. Great for long journeys though, if I had a low ping, and high bandwidth net connection in there... I'd be happy for a two hour daily commute lol.

This said, ten years ago if you had said I would be walking around with a touch screen phone, with 2-3mbit download almost 24/7... which would access as a wireless access point that I could tether to my tablet/netbook, which itself is capable of playing the latest games via onlive (it actually works, amazingly... I played Driver San Francisco and DiRT3) i would have frankly laughed in your face. Though, even with WAP on my old C35i, first phone I had with WAP, I knew mobile net was going to be huge... even though I was mocked at the time by mates. I just did not figure on how quickly phones and networks would evolve. Maybe something like that is only ten years away... to be honest if LTE pings sub sixty milliseconds... that is really getting amazing.

Since I've got the Transformer, I've realised that all trackpads are gash technology, and laptops would just be better with touch screens... barring the mucky finger situation.

And to think ten years ago I was happy just to have a phone that I would walk anywhere with, and play snake. I don't think I could survive there any more. Mini Disks, and Dumb Phones. Ouch. Still, beats a Walkman and a Payphone I guess....

[digidix]

I like the idea of being driven on a motorways by computer cars because it is so long and monotonous, but I still like driving through the countryside myself, nothing beats that