But last night (Saturday evening) you were driving just before 9:00 PM ...
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The worst of the traffic is on the weekdays.
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The worst of the traffic is on the weekdays.
This is where auto driving cars could shine: relentless, despicable stop-go traffic. Just let the car do the worrying and listen to tunes, meditate or do the cell phone zombie mash. Return to driver control when you can actually cruise again.
Had a Tesla do just that! Driver doing the mash not paying f#$% all for attention while driving through the parking lot at the aquarium, me in the crosswalk watching him approach, car slams on the brake to not hit me and $hit4Brains is more upset that he was startled and dropped his phone than the fact that he almost ran over one of the finest examples of human life.
Taking responsibility away from drivers operating a motor vehicle is bad news. This is yet another avenue of shifting responsibility away from the individual, we are working hard as a society to make this the norm.
At my previous j.o.b one of my clients very high up in the biggest software company in the world recently retired and is in law school to practice AI law, said the writing is on the wall for this branch.
Sorry...bit of explanation required
My system has been down for the last two months after cat puked on my power amp.
So for music I've been driven to unusual places, like music documentaries on tv. Recently there was a good one titled 'synth Britannia' about the early days of synthesizer music.
Many of the artists spoke about how influenced they were by the work of JG Ballard, author of 'Crash', who wrote science fiction. One of his themes was of technology providing anonymity, and Gary Numan
(Did you get him in the US?) wrote the song 'Cars' after being attacked by some randoms after a traffc incident, talking about the relative safety from the world he felt when in his car
My system has been down for the last two months after cat puked on my power amp.
So for music I've been driven to unusual places, like music documentaries on tv. Recently there was a good one titled 'synth Britannia' about the early days of synthesizer music.
Many of the artists spoke about how influenced they were by the work of JG Ballard, author of 'Crash', who wrote science fiction. One of his themes was of technology providing anonymity, and Gary Numan
(Did you get him in the US?) wrote the song 'Cars' after being attacked by some randoms after a traffc incident, talking about the relative safety from the world he felt when in his car
And driving you home from the pub when you've had a skinful.
Although that might rule out some of the interactions you get when you pull on your beer coat and head off into the arms of public transport
I can deduce the meaning of “skinful,” but what is a “beer coat”? (I don’t drink beer.)
Your beer coat is what keeps you warm as you wend your way home, even though you didn't leave the house wearing an extra layer
Your beer coat is what keeps you warm as you wend your way home, even though you didn't leave the house wearing an extra layer
Thank you!
I guess the opening shot of Richard Gere in American Gigolo, tooling down the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, top down MBenz , clear open road, breeze in his hair, would have to be a night shot, now.
I haven't been in LA for a long time, but I was puzzling over the new popularity of the Silver Lake district, but it is actually within brisk walking distance and certainly bicycling distance of a lot of LA stuff: Hollywood, Dodger Stadium, Elysium Park, Echo Park, even the Disney performance center and downtown. You could live there with a lot of urban stuff around and not necessarily have to use your car much.
An old college friend who was raised in Glendale but mostly worked in Bay Area is in a little place around Silver Lake now.
I haven't been in LA for a long time, but I was puzzling over the new popularity of the Silver Lake district, but it is actually within brisk walking distance and certainly bicycling distance of a lot of LA stuff: Hollywood, Dodger Stadium, Elysium Park, Echo Park, even the Disney performance center and downtown. You could live there with a lot of urban stuff around and not necessarily have to use your car much.
An old college friend who was raised in Glendale but mostly worked in Bay Area is in a little place around Silver Lake now.
I was too conservative in my answer. At 11:00 AM, on a weekday, traffic was so minimal as to permit exceeding the speed limit the entire trip.
So during even the weekdays 11 AM to 2 PM is a virtually no traffic window.
