29 thoughts on “Leave The Driving To Google”

  1. OS,

    So true, so you were instrument rated.
    I flew just as a tech observer, and was logging time over the west AZ mountains an hour short of Yuma, when the sun kept the blinking red change tanks light from being seen by the pilot.
    Fortunalely he air started it after changeover. and did not change his pants after landing. Even offered me to land it on return to Ft Huachuca.
    It was a Beaver, it you know it.

    USD flight pay was a welcome addition to a meager Lt’s salary.
    Besides that, real tech flights were cool. Spotting ICBM silos with night obs via IR instrumentation was fun. Just like pencilling the B-52’s with our nuke cloud radar detection. They said hello back at us with various rabbit tracks and gate catchers anti-ECM stuff, said my ops, and showed me the stuff on the screen. This was ancient hist. now. 1960-62.

    What are your flight adventures?

  2. I can’t rest without the blubb-blubb of a stroked DOHC V-8.

    Even if the junk Alfa I had in LA sounded like the hard rock which would come 320 years later, to all at a race meet infield with its Hollywood bass mufflers. Gave the girls the hots and the guys looked around at this funny foreign car. If only they knew the bottom would drop out in two months. Ah, me.

  3. Dredd sez: Aircraft have been doing that for a long time.

    but that is probably not as difficult than this is … at least in some aspects.

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    Having experienced autopilot failure in instrument conditions, I am beyond skeptical. The old saw, “Let George do it,” works fine until “George” gets a case of the electron runaways, gets sick, and dies.

  4. I707 – It was, in 1976, unloaded it for a 1954 Chevrolet 3/4T – 1T overload leaf springs. It didn’t have the corner windows in the back of the cab, but it did have a 261 c.i. straight-six from a “short bus” – converted from 6v to 12v.

  5. i want to see the look on the cops face the first time stevie wonder gets pulled over.

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  7. JS sounds like an obvious lemon—-just the GT (gran turismo) says that.

    A ’66 Alfa Romeo convertible on salted winter roads in Sweden. Holes in your bottom, tra la la.

    Next!

  10. cogrannie (@cogrannie),

    Where does your dad live? I don’t want to be there. Maybe he should be encouraged to take a new driver’s test to see if he still has the reflexes and mental acuity to continue to drive. Consider Ideal’s comment. He’s a danger, not just to himself, but to others as well. Maybe get someone from the church to offer him a lift.

  11. Coggrannie,
    So your dad is tougher than his car. Good genes you got.

    Blouise,
    We could start a thread: Cars/makers I hate.
    There I WOULD be totally clueless as to your market.

    Now please explain your comment. Nah, wouldn’t understand anyway.

    Bet you’re not old enough to appreciate how fanstastic the Studebaker (but phony too) was when it came with its fighter plane imitation.

    What’s the first car you did……never mind.

    Cars and associations. They have four wheels but new charisma every year.

    Much better than donkeys, as any Afghani will testify. Grass is expensive too.

  12. I bet Shirley MacLaine is thrilled. Of course all this could come crashing down whenever Mercury goes retrograde.

  13. I just watched Southpark’s episode on Senior’s driving–they could have brought in google instead of AARP to save the day! This has to be safer than my 86 yr old dad who drives to church 3 times a day with neuropathy in his feet, beginning dementia, diabetes and speeding when he needs to find a bathroom. Maybe it would have spared him one car he’s already totaled.

  15. Aircraft have been doing that for a long time.

    but that is probably not as difficult than this is … at least in some aspects.

    What might be something that would work with this is highways, roads, and streets with built in compatibility for this new technology.

    Not to mention mass transit of this sort, once proven.

  17. Does it pullover when the police do a routine traffic check? Ambulances too? Can you sleep on a long trip? Can you converse with it if your mother-in-law bores you?
    Add your own.

  19. “Mama, I gotta pee-pee.”

    “Where’s the nearest toilet?”

    “I’m not programmed for that. Our newest version is, and is available for just NNN dollars per month.
    Installation time only 20 minutes, ahem, in the meanwhile you can visit our XXX snackbar. Oh yes, toilets? All facilities free of charge at your friendly Google Drive-in Service center.
    Thank you for driving Google.”

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