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| Thread ID: 138712 | 2015-01-11 05:01:00 | Self Drive Cars - the next environmental disaster | Paul.Cov (425) | PC World Chat |
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| 1391921 | 2015-01-12 06:56:00 | Underutilized trains? Have you seen them in the mornings at all? Completely packed! Most of the trains I see are close to empty. Between 9am and 3pm they do not even come close to paying their way. About all they achieve is to make motorists waste fuel and time waiting at crossings. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1391922 | 2015-01-12 07:02:00 | I was in Auckland over Xmas New Year 2013/14. I wanted to go out to New Lynn on a nostalgia trip. I used to commute to the old Auckland station on the old Wab steam powered trains from there back in the late '50s. Unfortunately Auckland was closed when I was there. Ken Remember the days when shops were not open on weekends apart from service stations the the corner dairy ? Now days shops close for one day and some people panic ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1391923 | 2015-01-12 07:39:00 | Remember the days when shops were not open on weekends apart from service stations the the corner dairy ? Now days shops close for one day and some people panic ;) Don't know if it happened here but in England lots of shops were closed on Wednesday afternoons because they opened for a half day on Saturday mornings. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1391924 | 2015-01-12 07:49:00 | I was in Auckland over Xmas New Year 2013/14. Unfortunately Auckland was closed when I was there. Ken Same this year - 2014/15. Would the last person to leave Auckland turn off the lights and put the cat out? :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1391925 | 2015-01-12 07:52:00 | The reason for the Wed arvo closure was in early times it was the mid week shutdown to clean the soot from the boilers and chimneys in the kipper (RNZN for Pom) factories. The workers quite often played sport on this day and had teams like Sheffield Wednesday | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1391926 | 2015-01-12 08:12:00 | AS these self drive cars are EXTREMEY reliant on computer technology, are they able to be hacked and used in the same way as military drones ... (non flying of course)... taking on new instructions and carry them out without question. If this is the case, I could put an ad on "Give a Little" to purchase a vehicle as well, either an XBox and / or PS3 with optional joystick. I have some lovely harbours, cliffs, one - way streets, lampposts, etc., not forgetting the supermarket car parks, available as testing grounds. I'm pretty sure I could get the wife into the drives seat as crash test dummy and see just how safe these vehicles are ... I believe there is always "collateral" damage in the testing stage which I cannot see as being a problem. :nerd: |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1391927 | 2015-01-12 18:52:00 | AS these self drive cars are EXTREMEY reliant on computer technology, are they able to be hacked and used in the same way as military drones :nerd: Yeah....but normal cars are driven by humans, and most humans are pretty bad at it.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1391928 | 2015-01-12 22:11:00 | Put me down for one of those self drive cars, please. It must have bullbars and be completely armour-plated. Wait!! The one I drive needs those things too. It must be self-parking, as well and able to eradicate parking tickets from the system. kenj and WalOne, I have a feeling those Aucklanders escaped to some sort of sane place and those who didn't clog the roads to Northland did so going to the Thames/Coromandel area or Bay of Plenty. :crying |
Marnie (4574) | ||
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