XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: robin_listas@es.invalid
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 .......
>
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Cheers, Carlos.
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