What modern technology amazes you?

Wherenext replied on 15/02/2017 20:04

Posted on 15/02/2017 20:04

There have been 2 articles in my paper this week concering flying cars.

A Dutch compant have apparently built a hybrid road and flying car, sale price about £500,000 and Flying Driverless taxis are to be introduced in Dubai as early as next year. 

Gives me the heebeejeebees. Imagine an equivalent of the M25 but 100 feet above your head? Wonder if the Wherenext of the late 19 th. Century had similar thoughts about the car?

SteveDSD replied on 16/02/2017 16:02

Posted on 15/02/2017 20:04 by Wherenext

There have been 2 articles in my paper this week concering flying cars.

A Dutch compant have apparently built a hybrid road and flying car, sale price about £500,000 and Flying Driverless taxis are to be introduced in Dubai as early as next year. 

Gives me the heebeejeebees. Imagine an equivalent of the M25 but 100 feet above your head? Wonder if the Wherenext of the late 19 th. Century had similar thoughts about the car?

Posted on 16/02/2017 16:02

Hopefully the personal ownership of cars will reduce once we have autonomous driving electric vehicles and we won't need flying cars that'll fall on you or your house when they crash.

All the billions of cars that sit idly in car parks for 90% of their life is just a complete waste of resources. Carpooling would be so much easier if all the cars talked to a central place and made the best use of the route to pick up and drop off the maximum amount of people. 

I can see that there'll be a need for caravanners to move caravans around, but there's no reason an autonomous car couldn't do that too.

'Autonomous trucks would also help with the issue of the truck drivers needing to take rest breaks, or falling asleep at the wheel. 

There'll be a lot of people losing their jobs to automation in the next few years. Technology has always been used to displace jobs and I can see that the next Luddite movement might be against the autonomous car. 

Wherenext replied on 16/02/2017 19:29

Posted on 16/02/2017 19:29

There'll be a lot of people losing their jobs to automation in the next few years. Technology has always been used to displace jobs and I can see that the next Luddite movement might be against the autonomous car.

Looking at some of the idiots on the road these days it can't be any worse.

Merve replied on 20/02/2017 19:24

Posted on 20/02/2017 19:24

What technology amazes me.. ? All the tech that has enabled me to go off grid with no reduction in comfort and much reduced prices. Solar Panels, LED lighting etc - I love my caravanning even more these days!

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