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Not only will it be a disastrously bad shopping experience, it will cause death and carnage. This is exactly the kind of ridiculously crazy stuff they come up

Not only will it be a disastrously bad shopping experience, it will cause death and carnage. This is exactly the kind of ridiculously crazy stuff they come up with with board rooms when the sycophants don't have enough balls to tell their leaders they are nuts. It's good to be ambitious, this is just stupid. Now - if they could make it so you could get your car filled up and 'pay with your car' i.e. no credit cards, buttons or transactions - that would be a great convenience, and surely people in colder countries would use it. Fix the 'getting gas' paint point which is huge.

mtgx 9y ago
> Not only will it be a disastrously bad shopping experience, it will cause death and carnage. Sure, but think of all of those billions of dollars they could make! We're talking about GM here. Passenger and driver safety is not exactly their top concern: http://time.com/46483/gm-recall-ignition-switch-1/ http://time.com/46483/gm-recall-ignition-switch-1/
1001101 9y ago
> It's good to be ambitious, this is just stupid. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
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205guy 9y ago
That's fixed already: it's called an electric car. Get in your car in the morning and it is charged up and pre-warmed. Drive sportily but quietly and without pollution to your destination. If it's far away, plug in while eating and/or shopping. No need to stop anywhere with carcinogenic fumes and dirty pumps to pay for conflict-gasoline.
- alexasmyths 9y ago
  It's not remotely fixed yet, the amount of electricity needed + infrastructure is massive + the electricity we generate is not exactly clean. And once this is common - you will not be 'shopping' - you will be 'working'. I worked for BlackBerry and watched the world transform to 'off time is now on time'. Basically - 'after hours' became accessible to managers - now commute times will be as well. It will be good for skilled labour/trades. They will still get paid by the hour ... while white collar workers will now be putting in an extra 50 mins a day on average, no extra comp :)
  - 205guy 9y ago
    I'm not sure which ax you need to grind here, but electric cars surely solve the pump-gas-in-the-cold-problem you brought up (not to mention a whole lot of other gasoline-related problems).

mtgx 9y ago

> Not only will it be a disastrously bad shopping experience, it will cause death and carnage. Sure, but think of all of those billions of dollars they could make! We're talking about GM here. Passenger and driver safety is not exactly their top concern: http://time.com/46483/gm-recall-ignition-switch-1/ http://time.com/46483/gm-recall-ignition-switch-1/

1001101 9y ago

> It's good to be ambitious, this is just stupid. Welcome to late stage capitalism.

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205guy 9y ago

That's fixed already: it's called an electric car. Get in your car in the morning and it is charged up and pre-warmed. Drive sportily but quietly and without pollution to your destination. If it's far away, plug in while eating and/or shopping. No need to stop anywhere with carcinogenic fumes and dirty pumps to pay for conflict-gasoline.

alexasmyths 9y ago
It's not remotely fixed yet, the amount of electricity needed + infrastructure is massive + the electricity we generate is not exactly clean. And once this is common - you will not be 'shopping' - you will be 'working'. I worked for BlackBerry and watched the world transform to 'off time is now on time'. Basically - 'after hours' became accessible to managers - now commute times will be as well. It will be good for skilled labour/trades. They will still get paid by the hour ... while white collar workers will now be putting in an extra 50 mins a day on average, no extra comp :)
- 205guy 9y ago
  I'm not sure which ax you need to grind here, but electric cars surely solve the pump-gas-in-the-cold-problem you brought up (not to mention a whole lot of other gasoline-related problems).