Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Cars, engines... Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:42:52 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <10guib0$1ai5r$1@dont-email.me> <10h15ek$2cgcb$1@dont-email.me> <10h6jb8$5cd2$1@dont-email.me> <51ahjklsu5lfhmac7rm518jqgb7g2h2n5c@4ax.com> <10hbi4e$1di3b$12@dont-email.me> <10hgacn$2nb2a$1@dont-email.me> <10hktgl$h6vb$1@dont-email.me> <10hovsm$1t55d$1@dont-email.me> <10hrjq0$2o2nr$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net q0uAp4OuknOFq58hewrChgtUQ/OttL7/GjhAj++TNHBye2zfbi X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:dstH6ezVki2lFLwvFkoE+s8zLbY= sha256:JQ/jWgYeci9sICRHKQ+dBC757wK4Ok4QCpxJx4UxfLA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79488 alt.comp.os.windows-11:28693 On 2025-12-19 08:15, c186282 wrote: > On 12/18/25 16:56, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-12-17 01:42, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> On 2025-12-16, Daniel70 wrote: >>> >>>> On 16/12/2025 2:28 pm, c186282 wrote: >>>> >>>>> I guess the next decade's "automobiles" will be like a "Johnny Cab" >>>>> ... YOU don't do anything but tell it where you want to go >>>> >>>> Yeap, and it will be 'talking' to all the other vehicles so it will >>>> decide how to get you to where you think you want to go. >>>> >>>> Shades of 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Hurricane >>>> >>>> "Other features included Pathfinder, which used magnetic signals built >>>> into the road to guide the driver." >>> >>> On the other hand, I once read a science fiction story where the >>> protagonist's self-driving car pulled off to the side of the road, >>> locked the doors, and refused to let him move until he bought >>> whatever was being advertised on the radio.  (Fortunately for >>> him a friend passing by saw his predicament and rescued him.) >> >> Wow. >> >> I would think of smart tvs showing adverts, and if you do not pay >> attention, something they know by photographing your eyes, they would >> replay again and again the adverts before letting us watch the movie :-P > >   Oddly, heard on US news just the other day about >   a self-driving car that got into a bit of a crash. >   Its response was to lock the doors - "for the >   passengers safety" - and they couldn't get out. >   Emergency services had to crack the thing open ... Gosh. > >   If the battery pack had lit off ....... > -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;