Comments on: Los Angeles is not full of self-driving pod cars (and other disappointments from a 1988 view of 2013)

By: Marko Raos

Marko Raos — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:16:00 +0000

I’d prefer to be killed by a human rather than a robot. Call me quaint and sentimental but that’s the way I’m built.

By: DavidCulberson

DavidCulberson — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:05:00 +0000

Kind of like the list of things that can go wrong with current cars and drivers?

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:24:00 +0000

I do not want a self-driving pod car. The list of things that could go wrong is just too long and deadly.

By: John Napsterista

John Napsterista — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:42:00 +0000

If the L.A. Times predicted in 1988 that the 25 highest grossing live musical acts of 2012 would include Madonna (#1), Bruce Springsteen (#2), Van Halen (#8), Elton John (#19), Barbara Streisand (#12), Roger Waters (#3), Rod Stewart (#21) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (#15), people would’ve thought that was a lot crazier than driverless cars or robot maids. Show them pictures of the cool kids at the club of 2013 dressed exactly like it was 1988, and they’d really think you were fucking with them ….

By: Charlie Lesoine

Charlie Lesoine — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:13:00 +0000

Hey it put them on the map at least!

By: Charlie Lesoine

Charlie Lesoine — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:12:00 +0000

YEAH! Exactly. I was like, wait isn’t this a chapter from the Martian Chronicles?

By: Eric Mariacher

Eric Mariacher — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:09:00 +0000

We are only a few years late…Driverless cars will come in 4 steps: * step 0: today’s self parking feature and Google cars * step 1: partially autonomous driverless cars * step 2: everyone can operate a driverless car * step 3: shared driverless cars“How long end drivers are allowed (technically and legally) not to pay attention to road” will be the most interesting thing to watch for the next 5 to 10 years and especially: * environmental conditions allowing it. * the price of the technical features needed. * reliability. http://driverless-cars.blogspot.fr/2013/01/driverless-cars-for-next-decades-in-4.html

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:38:00 +0000

They looked at what happened to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook and decided against it.

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:32:00 +0000

1988? Hell, what about 1978 — where’s the monorail?