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If cars were invented today, they'd never let us have them. "It's like a horse and buggy, but much faster and heavier." "But it'll know somehow how to avoid o
by nicwolff 3y ago
If cars were invented today, they'd never let us have them.
"It's like a horse and buggy, but much faster and heavier."
"But it'll know somehow how to avoid other vehicles and pedestrians and trees and houses and such?"
"No, the driver has to pay continuous attention or it'll veer wildly and hit whatever's in front of it."
"Shouldn't it run on rails? Or between protective barriers?"
"Painted lines."
- bluGill 3y agoYou should have looked up what was really said about cars (both gas and electric!) when they were first invented. Some of them look much like your list, but others it looks like you made up something when reality already had an example.
- antisthenes 3y agoThat's a good and hilarious point. In today's safety obsessed world, cars are a terribly unsafe anachronism. Somehow tech people are more afraid to run an non-sandboxed tab in a browser than drive a 3-ton vehicle 1 painted line away from similar vehicles going the other way with a speed differential of 100 miles per hour. That fair, I guess, since physics aren't part of a JS-bootcamp.