Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
If I'm going to have a driverless car, then I want mine with a bed
Bar pls
A thread in praise of the private car!
- Thread starter weltweit
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Bar pls
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Being able to drive back from that nice country pub will be ace.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
You can't drive two cars at once though. Maybe you could use one car to tow the other, and leave the engine running on the towed vehicle.
With a brick on the accelerator.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'm wondering if my next car should have a 2.5L petrol as frankly I probably won't have the opportunity in years to come.
souljacker
innit
I agree with OU that they will die out, probably not for a while though. Jay Leno made a comment on Top Gear that he thinks they will go the way of the horse. Once vital and the best means of getting round, now used as a hobby for the rich.
We need another method to come along and replace it though. I couldn't do large chunks of my job without mine.
We need another method to come along and replace it though. I couldn't do large chunks of my job without mine.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Then we'd still have crap public transport, no money, and no car.
You would have to displace and relocate almost everyone to suit the chosen infrastructure, probably rail. Mass transit still wouldn't suit the fragmented, tangled way we live our lives, so we'd have to go back to a roughly 1930s way of living, which would have its effects on you too despite your urban privilege.
Personal car ownership will eventually go away, because driverless cars will commoditise car travel rather than car ownership, and summoning a car that you don't have the inconvenience of owning is an attractive proposition to most. But it only changes the mechanics of it, and it's not drastically different a model from now.
I dunno where it is you're going that you don't need roads, but it's not this century or last.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
3ltr TDI here, if driven carefully it does far better mileage than the 2ltr version. In fact as it's from the VW group the 2ltr probably uses shitloads more fuel...
I've got a 0ltr SP manual control.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I was driven round a bit of the Netherlands in one of those in 2004, top marks for style!Absolutely.
Gorgeous, isn't it.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Also let's stop for a moment, where safe to do so, and consider that it's amazing that millions, nay billions, of people can set off in their one tonne death machines, travelling at speeds at which our ancestors thought you wouldn't be able to breathe and your eyes would explode, every single day, and hardly anyone gets killed, much less out of deliberate rage. It's got nothing on the aeroplane, I admit, but you probably wouldn't let me fly your aeroplane.
You can fly the plane but you'll have to provide your own person to walk in front carrying the red flag.
mauvais
on reddit or something
If I press the horn at an opportune moment, do you think perhaps he'll get sufficiently airborne and we can all get going?
I suppose it depends how vigorously he waves the flag.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Aircraft (according to Wikipedia) are only safer than the car when considering total miles travelled. When considered on deaths per journey they are worse than cars:
Aviation safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
weltweit
Well-Known Member
It is interesting how much we rely on them. The last time I was without my car I could walk to a small shop at least but anything further was out of the question and I couldn't see my son, unless I walked about 5m each way.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Fuck the fuck off.Absolutely.
Gorgeous, isn't it.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Not even that if you only look at commercial airlines.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
But I can't get a plane to the shops...
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Well, yeah. What's your point?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Great things can also be terrible
What is that? it looks like the back end has melted in the heat.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
i love my car. i mean, proper love it, like want to have sex with it and live with it in a country cottage for ever and ever.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
So, let's focus on the good.
Bugatti 57 Atlantic. AFAIK only three were made so it's pretty much priceless, but utterly beautiful IMO. Which will get the car-haters in a flat spin.
