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Ford's new car will force you to obey the speed limit

10 points by eplanit 12y ago

beamatronic 12y ago
To paraphrase Bill Gates, "80 MPH ought to be enough for anybody"
- eplanit 12y ago
  http://hypebeast.com/2015/3/elon-musk-believes-that-itll-soon-be-illegal-for-humans-to-drive http://hypebeast.com/2015/3/elon-musk-believes-that-itll-soo...
DigitalSea 12y ago
Yes please. Far too many people are killed due to the fact people think they're driving on a race track, people only stop to think of the consequences after they've disabled or killed someone and it needs to end. In my city here in Australia we have 40km enforced school zones where children are crossing, this only comes into effect a couple of hours in the morning and afternoon on school days. It would be interesting to see how this system could adapt to variable speed conditions such as school zones without becoming annoying and causing motorists to always disable the speed limiting mode thus rendering the feature pointless. I really like this idea though. It definitely should be rolled out everywhere and be a standard feature going forward. If such a feature means you can get lower insurance premiums, I would be all for having this feature enabled if my car supported it.
- classicsnoot 12y ago
  i imagine some sort of circadian rhythm based around regional import/export. If autonomous vehicles become the order of the day, there will be much less 'road access'. in terms of insurance, if the roads become phone lines and the vehicles signal, your trips would make you money should the system make you late or hurt you. if people could swallow a "transparent car tax" the companies that bid to solve infrastructure problems and maintain the System would be on the hook for errors. the point of personal vehicles is commerce stimulus IMO and it is a money sink that profits very few and hurts a cluckton of others. I know people profit from mobility but cars do not create opportunity, they just expose it. It is like a huge water slide that you pay to use after you buy a tube and a water tank and some weird squirting device that wets the slide for you and a couple stickers to prove you bought them all. if i have to pay for a tube, i prefer the lazy river.
marssaxman 12y ago
Well, I won't buy one. Too much automation in modern cars already; it should be a tool that does what I want it to, not an implementation of some manufacturer's impression of what I ought to want instead.
- classicsnoot 12y ago
  If you were going to design a tool for moving your self and 80 lbs of objects up to 80 miles from yourself and you wanted to do it in an hour or less, would it really be a gas powered aluminum box on a steel chassis with rubber feet?
  - marssaxman 12y ago
    No, I'd use an electric motor.
jakeogh 12y ago
I'm with krapp: "Self-driving cars are potentially the greatest threat to human freedom since the advent of the internet." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982537
- classicsnoot 12y ago
  @krapp makes an incredibly valid point if you look at the autonomous car as a pairing of an android phone and a kia. if you look at it more like leaves on the surface of a creek, i think the true power of autonomous travel becomes clearer. I know in this place the love of profit is paramount, but i firmly believe we should strive towards resembling the electron and not the intention behind the key press when it comes to infrastructure.

10 points by eplanit 12y ago

beamatronic 12y ago

To paraphrase Bill Gates, "80 MPH ought to be enough for anybody"

eplanit 12y ago
http://hypebeast.com/2015/3/elon-musk-believes-that-itll-soon-be-illegal-for-humans-to-drive http://hypebeast.com/2015/3/elon-musk-believes-that-itll-soo...

DigitalSea 12y ago

Yes please. Far too many people are killed due to the fact people think they're driving on a race track, people only stop to think of the consequences after they've disabled or killed someone and it needs to end. In my city here in Australia we have 40km enforced school zones where children are crossing, this only comes into effect a couple of hours in the morning and afternoon on school days. It would be interesting to see how this system could adapt to variable speed conditions such as school zones without becoming annoying and causing motorists to always disable the speed limiting mode thus rendering the feature pointless. I really like this idea though. It definitely should be rolled out everywhere and be a standard feature going forward. If such a feature means you can get lower insurance premiums, I would be all for having this feature enabled if my car supported it.

classicsnoot 12y ago
i imagine some sort of circadian rhythm based around regional import/export. If autonomous vehicles become the order of the day, there will be much less 'road access'. in terms of insurance, if the roads become phone lines and the vehicles signal, your trips would make you money should the system make you late or hurt you. if people could swallow a "transparent car tax" the companies that bid to solve infrastructure problems and maintain the System would be on the hook for errors. the point of personal vehicles is commerce stimulus IMO and it is a money sink that profits very few and hurts a cluckton of others. I know people profit from mobility but cars do not create opportunity, they just expose it. It is like a huge water slide that you pay to use after you buy a tube and a water tank and some weird squirting device that wets the slide for you and a couple stickers to prove you bought them all. if i have to pay for a tube, i prefer the lazy river.

marssaxman 12y ago

Well, I won't buy one. Too much automation in modern cars already; it should be a tool that does what I want it to, not an implementation of some manufacturer's impression of what I ought to want instead.

classicsnoot 12y ago
If you were going to design a tool for moving your self and 80 lbs of objects up to 80 miles from yourself and you wanted to do it in an hour or less, would it really be a gas powered aluminum box on a steel chassis with rubber feet?
- marssaxman 12y ago
  No, I'd use an electric motor.

jakeogh 12y ago

I'm with krapp: "Self-driving cars are potentially the greatest threat to human freedom since the advent of the internet." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982537

classicsnoot 12y ago
@krapp makes an incredibly valid point if you look at the autonomous car as a pairing of an android phone and a kia. if you look at it more like leaves on the surface of a creek, i think the true power of autonomous travel becomes clearer. I know in this place the love of profit is paramount, but i firmly believe we should strive towards resembling the electron and not the intention behind the key press when it comes to infrastructure.