You can lead a horse to water ...( Friend buying a Jeep )

[The Other Andy]

Originally Posted by wdb

Thread.... keeps..... drifting......

From Kevin and Kell

It's not like she's going from an Echo to a Suburban, it's just a Patriot. Frankly, it's not worth getting all this worked up about.

And anyone who believes that we'll be less safe with self-driving cars is just... I don't even have the words. That position must come from some reality light-years away from Earth.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

A proper android should be able to handle terminal oversteer.

Or to emulate the effect of ABS brakes...

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

So we're back to gravel roads? I was thinking of an android behind the wheel of a 36hp VW Beetle, sans 'traction control systems'. A proper android should be able to handle terminal oversteer.

I rolled a '69 Beetle on a gravel road in HS. Perhaps I needed an Android to keep me from driving stupid. I later learned the Beetle likes to swap ends under heavy downhill braking when on loose surfaces.

On a 12hr flight, a pilot might spend 4min flying the plane, the rest of the time it's automation at the helm. 90% of crashes are due to pilot error, with the majority of accidents being avoidable by relying on the autopilot.

[Cd]

I skipped past the last page of posts, since it's late.
I just wanted to add this quote from her :

Quote : " Mom wants a new crv for $36500. What do you think? "

" I think they should buy whatever they want. "

OK, but what do you think of it? Don't bother asking your mysogenystic ecomodder buddies.

Misogynistic ? Ecomodder ?
NEVER !
I see she knew I was asking you guys about all of this. ( I wonder if she is reading this )

[Xist]

Misogynistic?! That is racist!

(Of course it is not, but there is something wrong with assuming that men are

[freebeard]

'[M]ysogenystic' or just kicked out of the gene pool?

I skipped past the last page of posts...

Some of my best work.

redpoint5 -- When I was driving truck in college, I had a International COE with 4 or 5 tons of dairy feed in back drifting back roads.

VWs are safer because you go off the road backwards.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

On a 12hr flight, a pilot might spend 4min flying the plane, the rest of the time it's automation at the helm. 90% of crashes are due to pilot error, with the majority of accidents being avoidable by relying on the autopilot.

Not entirely true. If you're looking at just commercial airlines, often the pilot(s) are taking over from the autopilot because the plane's gotten into a situation which the autopilot can't handle*. So it would be more accurate to say that human pilots prevent X percent of autopilot failures from becoming crashes. For a leading example, the plane that ditched in the Hudson River a few years back.


*Kind of like having your autodriver handle interstates and city streets, but suddenly hand control back to the human when it runs into say snow-covered mountain roads.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

If she feels the need for a minivan on steroids, just let it go. It seems like she already set her mind toward it and there is nothing you could do about it. What about a Ford Escape Hybrid?

[freebeard]

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[Cd]

Originally Posted by freebeard

So we're back to gravel roads? I was thinking of an android behind the wheel of a 36hp VW Beetle, sans 'traction control systems'. A proper android should be able to handle terminal oversteer.

Warning : harsh language