This was here in The Woodlands
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This was here in The Woodlands
Well, then
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Re: This was here in The Woodlands
I'm thinking the guy was in the driver's seat and not really hanging on good, nor belted in and he over accelerated due to inexperience in the car. I road in a Tesla for the first time last week. The owner, and driver, is not a fully grown 55 year-old man, at least maturity wise. His business partner, my consultant, says he is a little boy when it comes to big boy toys. Anyway, that thing is scary fast. The acceleration I can only compare to Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, or maybe an aircraft carrier catapult.
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Re: This was here in The Woodlands
I had seen that earlier and noticed "Woodlands" and thought of you.
I have made no secret of my disdain for and fear of "self-driving" cars. It is one of my big soapbox things.
It struck me yesterday that we label them wrong to call them "Self-driving" cars when in reality, they are "System-Driven" cars.
I can think of no better way for TPTB (whoever they might be) to instantly deny transportation to a population than to speed the transition to "System-Driven" cars. Pretty easy to flip the switch and shut off transportation in a time of civil unrest or war or whatever.
I have made no secret of my disdain for and fear of "self-driving" cars. It is one of my big soapbox things.
It struck me yesterday that we label them wrong to call them "Self-driving" cars when in reality, they are "System-Driven" cars.
I can think of no better way for TPTB (whoever they might be) to instantly deny transportation to a population than to speed the transition to "System-Driven" cars. Pretty easy to flip the switch and shut off transportation in a time of civil unrest or war or whatever.
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Supposedly no one was in the drivers seat, only passenger and back.
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Also wonder about the time of the drive, 11:30 pm...do you think a couple of "pops" could have been involved?
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Re: This was here in The Woodlands
Tesla says the car did not have the self-driving feature, and if it did it couldn't have been engaged, and if it was couldn't have exceeded the speed limit.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.