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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Will Self-Driving Cars Change The Way We Think of Cities?

Did the Segway change the way we think of cities? The people saying the one now are exactly like the ones -- when they are not in fact literally the same ones -- who said the other then. If that doesn't matter to you, you are probably a futurologist. You should probably be making sure your head gets frozen when you die or something right about now.

5 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

Well you still need a driver in the car with your self driving car. You're essentialy paying a huge amount of money for the priviledge of not touching the wheel.

We do have a prexisting self driving car technology which is more affordable. They're called taxis.

Dale Carrico said...

When taxis come online they will change the way we think of cities. I predict... twenty years from now!

jimf said...

> Did the Segway change the way we think of cities?

Did Weird Al change the way we think of Segways?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q42tEnt9GWg

Could you ever have sex with somebody after seeing them on a Segway?

Dale Carrico said...

There are guys I could have sex with even after seeing them on a Segway. Hell, I could have sex with Roger Huerta ON a Segway.

jimf said...

> Hell, I could have sex with Roger Huerta ON a Segway.

But not, heaven forbid, in Dominica.